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title: Her stepmother sent her out every day to sit by the well in the high… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Her stepmother sent her out every day to sit by the well in the high road, there to spin until she made her fingers bleed. Who acts: stepmother, mother, fingers. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Mother Holle, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Mother Holle, sentence 3

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Her stepmother sent her out every day to sit by the well in the high road, there to spin until she made her fingers bleed.

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**Who acts:** stepmother, mother, fingers · **What happens:** send out, sit, spin, make, bleed · **To what, where:** mother, high road

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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 (stepmother, mother, fingers), 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:pg2591:22:3
# text = Her stepmother sent her out every day to sit by the well in the high road, there to spin until she made her fingers bleed.
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
6	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	well	well	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	20	expl	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	spin	spin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
21	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	ccomp	_	_
24	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
26	bleed	bleed	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send out** | past | mother's stepmother | mother |  |  | day |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 2 | **sit** | to-infinitive | mother's stepmother *not said here* |  |  | the high road |  | by the well | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by well=Location |
| 3 | **spin** | to-infinitive | mother's stepmother *not said here* |  |  | there |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **make** | past | mother |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **bleed** | present | mother's fingers |  |  |  |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |

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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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