--- title: She walked over the meadow, and presently she came upon a baker’s ov… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: She walked over the meadow, and presently she came upon a baker’s oven full of bread, and the loaves cried out to her, ‘Take us out, take us out, or alas! we shall be burnt to a cinder; we were baked through long ago.’ Who acts: girl, loaves. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, loaves), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2591:22:8 # text = She walked over the meadow, and presently she came upon a baker’s oven full of bread, and the loaves cried out to her, ‘Take us out, take us out, or alas! we shall be burnt to a cinder; we were baked through long ago.’ 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 walked walk VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 over over ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 meadow meadow NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 8 presently presently ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 9 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 11 upon upon ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 baker baker NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ’s 's PART POS _ 13 case _ _ 15 oven oven NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 16 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 bread bread NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 loaves loaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 23 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 24 out out ADP RP _ 23 compound:prt _ _ 25 to to ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 Take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 advcl _ _ 30 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 out out ADP RP _ 29 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 conj _ _ 34 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ _ 35 out out ADP RP _ 33 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 37 or or CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 alas ala NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 nsubj:pass _ SpaceAfter=No 39 ! ! PUNCT . _ 38 punct _ _ 40 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 41 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ _ 42 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 43 aux:pass _ _ 43 burnt burnt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 parataxis _ _ 44 to to ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 cinder cinder NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 47 ; ; PUNCT : _ 50 punct _ _ 48 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 50 nsubj _ _ 49 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 50 aux:pass _ _ 50 baked bake VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 parataxis _ _ 51 through through ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 52 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 53 advmod _ _ 53 ago ago ADV RB _ 50 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 54 . . PUNCT . _ 50 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 55 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **walk** | past | girl | | | the meadow | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over meadow=Trajectory | | 2 | **come** | past | girl | | | a baker's oven | | presently *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon oven=Location | | 3 | **cry out** *speech: express* | past | the loaves | | girl | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient | | 4 | **take out** | infinitive | the loaves *not said here* | us | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme | | 5 | **take out** | infinitive | the loaves *not said here* | us | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme | | 6 | **burnt** | shall · passive | | alas | | | | to a cinder | tree rules | | 7 | **bake** | past · passive | | we | | | | ago *property* | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/22/7/) - next →: [sentence 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/22/9/) - ↑ back to [Mother Holle](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/22/)