--- title: So she cut it off, ate it, and enjoyed it, and when she had done, sh… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: So she cut it off, ate it, and enjoyed it, and when she had done, she thought: ‘The other must go down too, or else master will observe that something is missing.’ Who acts: Gretel, other, master, something. 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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 (Gretel, other, master, something), 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:pg2591:26:18 # text = So she cut it off, ate it, and enjoyed it, and when she had done, she thought: ‘The other must go down too, or else master will observe that something is missing.’ 1 So so ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 cut cut VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 off off ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 ate eat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 enjoyed enjoy VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 15 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 18 advmod _ _ 16 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 21 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 20 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 : : PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 23 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 nsubj _ _ 26 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 ccomp _ _ 28 down down ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 29 too too ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 31 or or CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 32 else else ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 master master NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 34 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 observe observe VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 conj _ _ 36 that that SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 37 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 39 nsubj _ _ 38 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 cop _ _ 39 missing missing ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cut off** | past | Gretel | One | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector it=Eventuality | | 2 | **eat** | past | Gretel *not said here* | One | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 3 | **enjoy** | past | Gretel *not said here* | One | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | | 4 | **do** | past · perfect | Gretel | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Gretel | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 6 | **go down** | must | the other | | | | | down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 7 | **observe** | future | master | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **is** | present | something | | | | | missing *property* | tree rules | 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 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/26/17/) - next →: [sentence 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/26/19/) - ↑ back to [Clever Gretel](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/26/)