--- title: In front of the house was a great stone trough, so she said to the c… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: In front of the house was a great stone trough, so she said to the child: ‘Take the pail, Red-Cap; I made some sausages yesterday, so carry the water in which I boiled them to the trough.’ Who acts: grandmother, I. 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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 (grandmother, I), 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:pg2591:23:61 # text = In front of the house was a great stone trough, so she said to the child: ‘Take the pail, Red-Cap; I made some sausages yesterday, so carry the water in which I boiled them to the trough.’ 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 front front NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 8 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 9 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 trough trough NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 so so ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 13 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 15 to to ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 : : PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 19 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 Take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 ccomp _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 pail pail NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 Red Red PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 Cap Cap PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ; ; PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 parataxis _ _ 30 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 31 det _ _ 31 sausages sausage NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ _ 32 yesterday yesterday NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 so so ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 carry carry VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 20 parataxis _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 38 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 41 obl _ _ 40 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 41 boiled boil VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 advcl _ _ 42 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 obj _ _ 43 to to ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 trough trough NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 47 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | | a great stone trough | | front of the house | | | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | grandmother | | | | | to the child | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to child=Experiencer clause=Topic | | 3 | **take** | infinitive | | the pail | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument pail=Theme red=Destination | | 4 | **make** | past | I | some sausages | | | yesterday | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sausage=Product | | 5 | **carry** | infinitive | | the water | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme | | 6 | **boil** | past | I | Red | | | | to the trough *result* | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Patient in which=Instrument to trough=Result | 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 60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/23/60/) - next →: [sentence 62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/23/62/) - ↑ back to [Little Red-cap \[little Red Riding Hood\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/23/)