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title: On reaching the entrance to the forest she found the path strewed wi… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: On reaching the entrance to the forest she found the path strewed with ashes, and these she followed, throwing down some peas on either side of her at every step she took. Who acts: feeling, these. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Robber Bridegroom, with its dependency tree an
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Robber Bridegroom, sentence 12

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On reaching the entrance to the forest she found the path strewed with ashes, and these she followed, throwing down some peas on either side of her at every step she took.

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**Who acts:** feeling, these · **What happens:** reach, find, strew, follow, throw down, take · **To what, where:** entrance, path, peas, side, step

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Robber Bridegroom. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (feeling, these), 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:pg2591:24:12
# text = On reaching the entrance to the forest she found the path strewed with ashes, and these she followed, throwing down some peas on either side of her at every step she took.
1	On	on	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	reaching	reach	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	entrance	entrance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	strewed	strew	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	ashes	ash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	19	nsubj	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	throwing	throw	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
22	down	down	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	24	det	_	_
24	peas	pea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	either	either	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	27	det	_	_
27	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nmod	_	_
30	at	at	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	32	det	_	_
32	step	step	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
33	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | gerund | feeling *not said here* | the entrance |  |  |  | to the forest | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent entrance=Theme |
| 2 | **find** | past | feeling | the path |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent path=Topic |
| 3 | **strew** | participle |  | the path *not said here* |  |  |  | with ashes | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with ash=Theme |
| 4 | **follow** | past | these |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **throw down** | gerund | these *not said here* | some peas |  | either side of feeling |  | at every step | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent pea=Theme at step=Destination |
| 6 | **take** | past | feeling | every step *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent step=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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