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title: Worse still, she neglected to make the old woman’s bed properly, and… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Worse still, she neglected to make the old woman’s bed properly, and forgot to shake it so that the feathers might fly about. Who acts: girl, feathers. 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 44

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Worse still, she neglected to make the old woman’s bed properly, and forgot to shake it so that the feathers might fly about.

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**Who acts:** girl, feathers · **What happens:** neglect, not make, forget, not shake, fly · **To what, where:** 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, feathers), 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:pg2591:22:44
# text = Worse still, she neglected to make the old woman’s bed properly, and forgot to shake it so that the feathers might fly about.
1	Worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
2	still	still	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	neglected	neglect	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	’s	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
13	properly	properly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	forgot	forget	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	shake	shake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	25	mark	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	fixed	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
24	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
26	about	about	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **neglect** | past | girl |  |  |  |  |  | vn neglect-75.1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **make** | to-infinitive | girl *not said here* | the old woman's bed |  |  |  | properly *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bed=Product |
| 3 | **forget** | past | girl *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **shake** | to-infinitive | girl *not said here* | bed |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 5 | **fly** | might | the feathers |  |  |  |  | about *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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