--- title: ‘Oh!’ answered she, ‘I used the butter to grease those poor trees th… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: ‘Oh!’ answered she, ‘I used the butter to grease those poor trees that the wheels chafed so: and one of the cheeses ran away so I sent the other after it to find it, and I suppose they are both on the road together somewhere.’ Who acts: I, wheels, one, butter. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, wheels, one, butter), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2591:29:56 # text = ‘Oh!’ answered she, ‘I used the butter to grease those poor trees that the wheels chafed so: and one of the cheeses ran away so I sent the other after it to find it, and I suppose they are both on the road together somewhere.’ 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Oh oh INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ! ! PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 5 answered answer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 used use VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 butter butter NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 grease grease VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 advcl _ _ 15 those that DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 17 det _ _ 16 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 18 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 21 obj _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 wheels wheel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 21 chafed chafe VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 acl:relcl _ _ 22 so so ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 : : PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 25 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 29 nsubj _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 cheeses cheese NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nmod _ _ 29 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 30 away away ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 31 so so ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 32 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 sent send VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 conj _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 obj _ _ 36 after after ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obl _ _ 38 to to PART TO _ 39 mark _ _ 39 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 advcl _ _ 40 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 43 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 44 suppose suppose VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 45 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 50 nsubj _ _ 46 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 50 cop _ _ 47 both both ADV RB _ 50 advmod _ _ 48 on on ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 49 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 50 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 ccomp _ _ 51 together together ADV RB _ 52 advmod _ _ 52 somewhere somewhere ADV RB PronType=Ind 50 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 53 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 54 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | | | other | | | | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality | | 2 | **use** | past | I | the butter | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent butter=Patient | | 3 | **grease** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | that poor trees | | | | | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent tree=Destination | | 4 | **chafe** | past | the wheels | that poor trees | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Patient | | 5 | **run away** | past | one of the cheeses | | | | | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **send** | past | I | the other | | | after cheese | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Theme | | 7 | **find** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | cheese | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | | 8 | **suppose** | present | I | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **is** | present | butter | | | the road | | both, somewhere *property* | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 55](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/29/55/) - next →: [sentence 57](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/29/57/) - ↑ back to [Frederick and Catherine](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/29/)