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title: She ran home crying to tell of her misfortune, but her stepmother sp… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: She ran home crying to tell of her misfortune, but her stepmother spoke harshly to her, and after giving her a violent scolding, said unkindly, ‘As you have let the spindle fall into the well you may go yourself and fetch it out.’ Who acts: girl, stepmother, you. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» 
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Mother Holle, sentence 5

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She ran home crying to tell of her misfortune, but her stepmother spoke harshly to her, and after giving her a violent scolding, said unkindly, ‘As you have let the spindle fall into the well you may go yourself and fetch it out.’

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**Who acts:** girl, stepmother, you · **What happens:** run, cry, tell, speak, give, say · **To what, where:** girl, violent scolding, you, yourself, well, stepmother · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, stepmother, you), 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:pg2591:22:5
# text = She ran home crying to tell of her misfortune, but her stepmother spoke harshly to her, and after giving her a violent scolding, said unkindly, ‘As you have let the spindle fall into the well you may go yourself and fetch it out.’
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	home	home	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	misfortune	misfortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
15	harshly	harshly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
20	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
21	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	advcl	_	_
22	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	iobj	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	violent	violent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	scolding	scolding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
27	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
28	unkindly	unkindly	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
30	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
32	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj:pass	_	_
33	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	let	let	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	37	advcl	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	spindle	spindle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
37	fall	fall	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	ccomp	_	_
38	into	into	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	well	well	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
41	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
42	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
43	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	ccomp	_	_
44	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	43	obj	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
46	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	conj	_	_
47	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	obj	_	_
48	out	out	ADP	RP	_	46	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | past | girl |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund | girl *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | girl *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of girl's misfortune | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | girl's stepmother |  | girl |  |  | harshly *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to she=Co-Agent |
| 5 | **give** | gerund |  | a violent scolding | girl |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient scolding=Theme |
| 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | girl *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unkindly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 7 | **let** | present · perfect · passive |  | you |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient spindle=Theme |
| 8 | **fall** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 9 | **go** | may | you | yourself |  | the well |  |  | tree rules |
| 10 | **fetch out** | infinitive | you *not said here* | stepmother |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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