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title: ‘Cake and wine; yesterday was baking-day, so poor sick grandmother i… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Cake and wine; yesterday was baking-day, so poor sick grandmother is to have something good, to make her stronger.’ Who acts: yesterday, poor sick grandmother. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Little Red-cap [little Red Riding Hood], with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Little Red-cap \[little Red Riding Hood\], sentence 13

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‘Cake and wine; yesterday was baking-day, so poor sick grandmother is to have something good, to make her stronger.’

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**Who acts:** yesterday, poor sick grandmother · **What happens:** be, make · **To what, where:** baking day, grandmother

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Little Red-cap \[little Red Riding Hood\]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (yesterday, poor sick grandmother), 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:pg2591:23:13
# text = ‘Cake and wine; yesterday was baking-day, so poor sick grandmother is to have something good, to make her stronger.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Cake	cake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
6	yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	baking	baking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
13	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	parataxis	_	_
19	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	18	obj	_	_
20	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	18	parataxis	_	_
24	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	stronger	strong	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	23	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | yesterday | baking day |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | poor sick grandmother |  |  |  |  | have *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | grandmother |  |  |  | strong *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset she=Product |

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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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