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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Frederick and Catherine, sentence 20

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So away she went for it: but she managed to set it down just upon the great jug full of beer, and upset it; and thus all the ale that had been saved was set swimming on the floor also.

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**Who acts:** Catherine · **What happens:** go, manage, set down, upset, save, set · **To what, where:** meal, great jug, ale, floor

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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), 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:pg2591:29:20
# text = So away she went for it: but she managed to set it down just upon the great jug full of beer, and upset it; and thus all the ale that had been saved was set swimming on the floor also.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	away	away	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	managed	manage	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	down	down	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
15	just	just	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
16	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	jug	jug	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
20	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	beer	beer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	upset	upset	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	38	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
29	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	32	det:predet	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	ale	ale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj:pass	_	_
33	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	36	nsubj:pass	_	_
34	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
35	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	36	aux:pass	_	_
36	saved	save	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	acl:relcl	_	_
37	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux:pass	_	_
38	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
39	swimming	swim	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	38	xcomp	_	_
40	on	on	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
43	also	also	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Catherine |  |  |  |  | for meal; away *property* | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for it=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **manage** | past | Catherine |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **set down** | to-infinitive | Catherine *not said here* | meal |  | the great jug |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme upon jug=Destination |
| 4 | **upset** | past | Catherine *not said here* | meal |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus it=Experiencer |
| 5 | **save** | past · perfect · passive |  | all ale |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 6 | **set** | past · passive |  | all ale |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **swim** | gerund |  |  |  | the floor |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on floor=Trajectory |

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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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