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title: So she poured all the vinegar down; and the thieves said, ‘What a he… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So she poured all the vinegar down; and the thieves said, ‘What a heavy dew there is!’ Who acts: Catherine, thieves. 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 81

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So she poured all the vinegar down; and the thieves said, ‘What a heavy dew there is!’

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**Who acts:** Catherine, thieves · **What happens:** pour down, say, be · **To what, where:** vinegar · **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, thieves), 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:pg2591:29:81
# text = So she poured all the vinegar down; and the thieves said, ‘What a heavy dew there is!’
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	poured	pour	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	6	det:predet	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	vinegar	vinegar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	down	down	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	thieves	thief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	12	ccomp	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	dew	dew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	20	expl	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pour down** | past | Catherine | all vinegar |  |  |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vinegar=Patient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the thieves |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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