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title: She took care to do everything according to the old woman’s bidding… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: She took care to do everything according to the old woman’s bidding and every time she made the bed she shook it with all her might, so that the feathers flew about like so many snowflakes. Who acts: woman, feathers, old woman. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Mother Holle, with i
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Mother Holle, sentence 19

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She took care to do everything according to the old woman’s bidding and every time she made the bed she shook it with all her might, so that the feathers flew about like so many snowflakes.

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**Who acts:** woman, feathers, old woman · **What happens:** take, care, do, accord, make, shake · **To what, where:** everything, bed

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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 (woman, feathers, old woman), 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:pg2591:22:19
# text = She took care to do everything according to the old woman’s bidding and every time she made the bed she shook it with all her might, so that the feathers flew about like so many snowflakes.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	care	care	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	5	obj	_	_
7	according	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	case	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	fixed	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	’s	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	bidding	bidding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
15	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
16	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl:unmarked	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	shook	shake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
25	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	27	det:predet	_	_
26	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	33	mark	_	_
30	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	29	fixed	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
33	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
34	about	about	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
35	like	like	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	so	so	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	snowflakes	snowflake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | woman |  |  |  |  |  | vn require-103 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition |
| 2 | **care** | infinitive | woman *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **do** | to-infinitive | woman *not said here* | everything |  |  |  | accord the old woman's bidding | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Eventuality |
| 4 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **make** | past | woman | the bed |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bed=Product |
| 6 | **shake** | past | woman | bed |  |  | time |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 7 | **fly** | past | the feathers |  |  |  |  | like many snowflakes; about *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **bid** |  | the old woman |  |  |  |  |  | nom bidding «communication 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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