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title: At last it popped into her head, ‘The dog is not shut up--he may be… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: At last it popped into her head, ‘The dog is not shut up--he may be running away with the steak; that’s well thought of.’ Who acts: beer, dog. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Frederick and Catherine, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Frederick and Catherine, sentence 10

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At last it popped into her head, ‘The dog is not shut up--he may be running away with the steak; that’s well thought of.’

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**Who acts:** beer, dog · **What happens:** pop, not shut up, run away, think · **To what, where:** last, dog, that

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Frederick and Catherine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beer, dog), 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:pg2591:29:10
# text = At last it popped into her head, ‘The dog is not shut up--he may be running away with the steak; that’s well thought of.’
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obl	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	popped	pop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	shut	shut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
15	up	up	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	aux	_	_
20	running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
21	away	away	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	steak	steak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
26	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	29	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	’s	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux:pass	_	_
28	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	29	advmod	_	_
29	thought	think	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	29	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 | **pop** | past | beer |  |  | last |  | into Catherine's head *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into head=Result |
| 2 | **not** **shut up** | present · passive |  | the dog |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **run away** | may · progressive | dog |  |  |  |  | with the steak; away *property* | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with steak=Material |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* | present · passive |  | that |  |  |  | well *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=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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