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title: The next day, however, she began to dawdle over her work, and the th… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The next day, however, she began to dawdle over her work, and the third day she was more idle still; then she began to lie in bed in the mornings and refused to get up. Who acts: girl, third day. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Mother Holle, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Mother Holle, sentence 43

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The next day, however, she began to dawdle over her work, and the third day she was more idle still; then she began to lie in bed in the mornings and refused to get up.

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**Who acts:** girl, third day · **What happens:** begin, dawdle, be, lie, refuse, not get up · **To what, where:** work, 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 (girl, third day), 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:pg2591:22:43
# text = The next day, however, she began to dawdle over her work, and the third day she was more idle still; then she began to lie in bed in the mornings and refused to get up.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	however	however	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	dawdle	dawdle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	over	over	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	18	amod	_	_
18	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	22	advmod	_	_
22	idle	idle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	obl	_	_
23	still	still	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
25	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	27	advmod	_	_
26	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	lie	lie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	mornings	morning	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	refused	refuse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
38	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	xcomp	_	_
39	up	up	ADP	RP	_	38	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | girl |  |  |  | day | however *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **dawdle** | to-infinitive | girl *not said here* |  |  | girl's work |  |  | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over work=Location |
| 3 | **is** | past | the third day |  |  |  | still | idle *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **begin** | past | girl |  |  |  | then |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **lie** | to-infinitive | girl *not said here* |  |  | bed | morning |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location |
| 6 | **refuse** | past | girl *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 7 | **not** **get up** | to-infinitive | girl *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 8 | **work** |  | girl |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: 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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