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title: There lay her grandmother with her cap pulled far over her face, and… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: There lay her grandmother with her cap pulled far over her face, and looking very strange. Who acts: cap. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Little Red-cap [little Red Riding Hood], with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Little Red-cap \[little Red Riding Hood\], sentence 33

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There lay her grandmother with her cap pulled far over her face, and looking very strange.

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**Who acts:** cap · **What happens:** lie, pull, look · **To what, where:** grandmother, face

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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 (cap), 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:pg2591:23:33
# text = There lay her grandmother with her cap pulled far over her face, and looking very strange.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	pulled	pull	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
9	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
10	over	over	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
16	very	very	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | past |  | cap's grandmother |  | there |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location grandmother=Theme |
| 2 | **pull** | past | cap's cap |  |  | cap's face |  | far *property* | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **look** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | strange *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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