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title: And when she came home she drank, in her gladness of heart, a draugh… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And when she came home she drank, in her gladness of heart, a draught of wine, and as wine excites a desire to eat, she tasted the best of whatever she was cooking until she was satisfied, and said: ‘The cook must know what the food is like.’ Who acts: cook, wine, food. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy 
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Clever Gretel, sentence 2

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And when she came home she drank, in her gladness of heart, a draught of wine, and as wine excites a desire to eat, she tasted the best of whatever she was cooking until she was satisfied, and said: ‘The cook must know what the food is like.’

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**Who acts:** cook, wine, food · **What happens:** come, drink, excite, eat, taste, cook · **To what, where:** gladness, desire, best · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Clever Gretel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cook, wine, food), 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:pg2591:26:2
# text = And when she came home she drank, in her gladness of heart, a draught of wine, and as wine excites a desire to eat, she tasted the best of whatever she was cooking until she was satisfied, and said: ‘The cook must know what the food is like.’
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
5	home	home	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	drank	drink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	gladness	gladness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	draught	draught	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
21	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	excites	excite	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	advcl	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	desire	desire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
29	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	tasted	taste	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	30	obj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	32	nmod	_	_
35	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
36	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	cooking	cook	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	34	acl:relcl	_	_
38	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
39	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
40	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	cop	_	_
41	satisfied	satisfied	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	50	punct	_	_
46	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	50	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	cook	cook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nsubj	_	_
49	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	50	aux	_	_
50	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	44	ccomp	_	_
51	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	55	obj	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	nsubj	_	_
54	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	55	cop	_	_
55	like	like	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	50	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	50	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | cook |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **drink** | past | cook | cook's gladness of heart and a draught of wine |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gladness=Patient |
| 3 | **excite** | present | wine | a desire |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus desire=Experiencer |
| 4 | **eat** | to-infinitive | wine *not said here* | a desire *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **taste** | past | cook | the best of whatever |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme good=Attribute |
| 6 | **cook** | past · progressive | cook |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **is** | past | cook |  |  |  |  | satisfied *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | cook *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 9 | **know** | must | the cook |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 10 | **is** | present | the food |  |  |  |  | like *property* | tree rules |

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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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