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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Mouse, the Bird, and the Sausage, sentence 20

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So now the bird set the table, and the mouse looked after the food and, wishing to prepare it in the same way as the sausage, by rolling in and out among the vegetables to salt and butter them, she jumped into the pot; but she stopped short long before she reached the bottom, having already parted not only with her skin and hair, but also with life.

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**Who acts:** bird, mouse, life · **What happens:** set, look, wish, prepare, roll, jump · **To what, where:** table, same way, vegetables, pot, bottom, skin

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Mouse, the Bird, and the Sausage. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bird, mouse, life), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2591:21:20
# text = So now the bird set the table, and the mouse looked after the food and, wishing to prepare it in the same way as the sausage, by rolling in and out among the vegetables to salt and butter them, she jumped into the pot; but she stopped short long before she reached the bottom, having already parted not only with her skin and hair, but also with life.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
13	after	after	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	wishing	wish	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	prepare	prepare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
26	as	as	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	sausage	sausage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
31	rolling	roll	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	conj	_	_
32	in	in	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	out	out	ADV	RB	_	32	conj	_	_
35	among	among	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	vegetables	vegetable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	_
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
39	salt	salt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	advcl	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	butter	butter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	conj	_	_
42	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
44	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
45	jumped	jump	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
46	into	into	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	52	punct	_	_
50	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
51	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
52	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
53	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	xcomp	_	_
54	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	52	advmod	_	_
55	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	57	mark	_	_
56	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	57	nsubj	_	_
57	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	52	advcl	_	_
58	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
59	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	61	punct	_	_
61	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	57	advcl	_	_
62	already	already	ADV	RB	_	63	advmod	_	_
63	parted	part	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	61	xcomp	_	_
64	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	68	advmod	_	_
65	only	only	ADV	RB	_	68	advmod	_	_
66	with	with	ADP	IN	_	68	case	_	_
67	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	68	nmod:poss	_	_
68	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	63	obj	_	_
69	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	70	cc	_	_
70	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	68	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
71	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	75	punct	_	_
72	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	75	cc	_	_
73	also	also	ADV	RB	_	75	advmod	_	_
74	with	with	ADP	IN	_	75	case	_	_
75	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
76	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set** | past | the bird | the table |  |  | now |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient table=Result |
| 2 | **look** | past | the mouse |  |  |  | after the food |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **wish** | gerund | the bird *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 4 | **prepare** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the bird *not said here* | table |  | the same way |  | as the sausage | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent it=Theme as sausage=Attribute |
| 5 | **roll** | gerund | the bird *not said here* |  |  | the vegetables |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among vegetable=Trajectory |
| 6 | **jump** | past | life |  |  |  |  | into the pot *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into pot=Result |
| 7 | **stop** | past | life |  |  |  |  | with life; long, short *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with life=Location |
| 8 | **reach** | past | life | the bottom |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent bottom=Theme |
| 9 | **have** | gerund | life *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 10 | **part** | participle | life *not said here* | life's skin and hair |  |  |  |  | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Patient |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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