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title: So she ran into the cellar again, took an enormous drink and ate up… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So she ran into the cellar again, took an enormous drink and ate up the one chicken in great glee. Who acts: Gretel. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Clever Gretel, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Clever Gretel, sentence 23

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So she ran into the cellar again, took an enormous drink and ate up the one chicken in great glee.

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**Who acts:** Gretel · **What happens:** run, take, eat up · **To what, where:** cellar, enormous drink, one chicken, great glee

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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 (Gretel), 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:pg2591:26:23
# text = So she ran into the cellar again, took an enormous drink and ate up the one chicken in great glee.
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	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	cellar	cellar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	again	again	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	enormous	enormous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
15	up	up	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	chicken	chicken	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	glee	glee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | past | Gretel |  |  |  | again | into the cellar *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into cellar=Result |
| 2 | **take** | past | Gretel *not said here* | a enormous drink |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drink=Theme |
| 3 | **eat up** | past | Gretel *not said here* | the one chicken |  | great glee |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chicken=Patient |

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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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