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title: Mother Holle led her, as she had led her sister, to the broad gatewa… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Mother Holle led her, as she had led her sister, to the broad gateway; but as she was passing through, instead of the shower of gold, a great bucketful of pitch came pouring over her. Who acts: Mother, girl. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Mother Holle, with its dependency tree a
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Mother Holle, sentence 47

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Mother Holle led her, as she had led her sister, to the broad gateway; but as she was passing through, instead of the shower of gold, a great bucketful of pitch came pouring over her.

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**Who acts:** Mother, girl · **What happens:** lead, pass through, come, pour · **To what, where:** girl, sister, broad gateway

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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 (Mother, girl), 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:pg2591:22:47
# text = Mother Holle led her, as she had led her sister, to the broad gateway; but as she was passing through, instead of the shower of gold, a great bucketful of pitch came pouring over her.
1	Mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Holle	Holle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
3	led	lead	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	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	led	lead	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	broad	broad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	gateway	gateway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
19	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	passing	pass	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	37	advcl	_	_
23	through	through	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	28	case	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	fixed	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	shower	shower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	bucketful	bucketful	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	pitch	pitch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
37	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
38	pouring	pour	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	37	xcomp	_	_
39	over	over	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead** | past | Mother | girl |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 2 | **lead** | past · perfect | girl | girl's sister |  | the broad gateway |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sister=Theme to gateway=Destination |
| 3 | **pass through** | past · progressive | girl |  |  |  |  | instead the shower of gold and a great bucketful of pitch; through *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **come** | past | Mother *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **pour** | gerund | Mother *not said here* |  |  |  |  | over girl | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over she=Location |

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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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