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title: While she was doing this kind office one of her cheeses fell out of… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: While she was doing this kind office one of her cheeses fell out of the basket, and rolled down the hill. Who acts: wife. 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 49

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While she was doing this kind office one of her cheeses fell out of the basket, and rolled down the hill.

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**Who acts:** wife · **What happens:** do, fall, roll down · **To what, where:** kind office, basket, hill

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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), 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:pg2591:29:49
# text = While she was doing this kind office one of her cheeses fell out of the basket, and rolled down the hill.
1	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
6	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	office	office	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	flat	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	cheeses	cheese	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
12	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	out	out	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	basket	basket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	rolled	roll	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	parataxis	_	_
20	down	down	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past · progressive | wife | this kind office |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent office=Eventuality |
| 2 | **fall** | past |  |  |  | the basket |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme out basket=Location |
| 3 | **roll down** | participle |  | the hill |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hill=Agent |

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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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