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title: So she thought a while; and at last remembered that there was a sack… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Frederick and Catherine, sentence 18

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So she thought a while; and at last remembered that there was a sack of fine meal bought at the last fair, and that if she sprinkled this over the floor it would suck up the ale nicely.

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**Who acts:** Catherine, sack · **What happens:** think, remember, be, buy, sprinkle, suck up · **To what, where:** last, fine meal, last fair, this, floor, ale · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Catherine, sack), 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:pg2591:29:18
# text = So she thought a while; and at last remembered that there was a sack of fine meal bought at the last fair, and that if she sprinkled this over the floor it would suck up the ale nicely.
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	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	obl	_	_
10	remembered	remember	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	ccomp	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	13	expl	_	_
13	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	sack	sack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	bought	buy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	fair	fair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
27	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
28	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	sprinkled	sprinkle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	advcl	_	_
30	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	29	obj	_	_
31	over	over	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
35	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	suck	suck	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	parataxis	_	_
37	up	up	ADP	RP	_	36	compound:prt	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	ale	ale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
40	nicely	nicely	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Catherine |  |  |  | while |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **remember** | participle |  |  |  | last |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **be** | past | a sack of fine meal |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **buy** | participle |  | fine meal *not said here* |  | the last fair |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **sprinkle** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | Catherine | this |  | the floor |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent this=Theme over floor=Destination |
| 6 | **suck up** | would | sack | the ale |  |  |  | nicely *property* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ale=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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