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description: So she shook the tree, and the apples came falling down upon her like rain; but she continued shaking until there was not a single apple left upon it. Who acts: girl, apples, single apple. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Mother Holle, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Mother Holle, sentence 12

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So she shook the tree, and the apples came falling down upon her like rain; but she continued shaking until there was not a single apple left upon it.

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**Who acts:** girl, apples, single apple · **What happens:** shake, come, fall down, continue, be, leave · **To what, where:** tree, rain, single apple

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Mother Holle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, apples, single apple), 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:pg2591:22:12
# text = So she shook the tree, and the apples came falling down upon her like rain; but she continued shaking until there was not a single apple left upon it.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	shook	shake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	apples	apple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	falling	fall	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	xcomp	_	_
12	down	down	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	like	like	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
21	shaking	shake	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	xcomp	_	_
22	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	24	expl	_	_
24	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	ccomp	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
29	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	acl	_	_
30	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shake** | past | girl | the tree |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent tree=Patient |
| 2 | **come** | past | the apples |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **fall down** | gerund | the apples *not said here* |  |  | girl's rain |  | down *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon rain=Location |
| 4 | **continue** | past | girl |  |  |  |  |  | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **shake** | gerund | girl *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **be** | past | a single apple |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **leave** | participle |  | a single apple *not said here* |  | tree |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent upon it=Location |
| 8 | **rain** |  | girl |  |  |  |  |  | nom rain «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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