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title: So she took pity on them, and made use of the butter to grease them… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So she took pity on them, and made use of the butter to grease them all, so that the wheels might not hurt them so much. Who acts: wife, wheels. 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 48

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So she took pity on them, and made use of the butter to grease them all, so that the wheels might not hurt them so much.

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**Who acts:** wife, wheels · **What happens:** take, make, grease, not hurt, use · **To what, where:** pity, wheels, trees, butter

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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 (wife, wheels), 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:pg2591:29:48
# text = So she took pity on them, and made use of the butter to grease them all, so that the wheels might not hurt them so much.
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	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	pity	pity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	_
10	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	butter	butter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	grease	grease	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
19	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	wheels	wheel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
23	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	hurt	hurt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
26	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	so	so	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	much	much	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | wife | pity |  |  |  | on wheels *= wheel*; made use of the butter *obl* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pity=Theme on they=Destination |
| 2 | **make** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 3 | **grease** | to-infinitive | wife *not said here* | wheels *= wheel* |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Destination |
| 4 | **not** **hurt** | might | the wheels | trees *= tree* |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Patient |
| 5 | **use** |  |  | the butter |  |  |  |  | nom use «act transitive»: of=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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