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title: The sausage had only to watch the pot to see that the food was prope… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The sausage had only to watch the pot to see that the food was properly cooked, and when it was near dinner-time, he just threw himself into the broth, or rolled in and out among the vegetables three or four times, and there they were, buttered, and salted, and ready to be served. Who acts: sausage,
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Mouse, the Bird, and the Sausage, sentence 8

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The sausage had only to watch the pot to see that the food was properly cooked, and when it was near dinner-time, he just threw himself into the broth, or rolled in and out among the vegetables three or four times, and there they were, buttered, and salted, and ready to be served.

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**Who acts:** sausage, pot, bird · **What happens:** have, watch, see, cook, be, throw · **To what, where:** pot, food, bird, broth, mouse · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (sausage, pot, bird), 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:pg2591:21:8
# text = The sausage had only to watch the pot to see that the food was properly cooked, and when it was near dinner-time, he just threw himself into the broth, or rolled in and out among the vegetables three or four times, and there they were, buttered, and salted, and ready to be served.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sausage	sausage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	watch	watch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
15	properly	properly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	cooked	cook	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
19	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	25	mark	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
22	near	near	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	just	just	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
30	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	29	obj	_	_
31	into	into	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	broth	broth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	rolled	roll	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	parataxis	_	_
37	in	in	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	out	out	ADV	RB	_	37	conj	_	_
40	among	among	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	vegetables	vegetable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	parataxis	_	_
43	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	46	nummod	_	_
44	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	43	conj	_	_
46	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
49	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	53	expl	_	_
50	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	nsubj:pass	_	_
51	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	53	aux:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
53	buttered	butter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
55	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
56	salted	salt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
58	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	59	cc	_	_
59	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	ccomp	_	_
60	to	to	PART	TO	_	62	mark	_	_
61	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	62	aux:pass	_	_
62	served	serve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	59	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the sausage |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **watch** | to-infinitive | the sausage *not said here* | the pot |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **see** | to-infinitive | the pot *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **cook** | past · passive |  | the food |  |  |  | properly *property* | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 5 | **is** | past | sausage |  |  |  | near dinner time |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **throw** | past | bird | bird |  |  |  | into the broth *result* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer himself=Theme into broth=Result |
| 7 | **roll** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **butter** | past · passive |  | mouse |  | there |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination |
| 9 | **salt** | past | the sausage *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
| 10 | **serve** | to-infinitive · passive | the sausage *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute» |

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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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