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description: Then she placed the can before her, and turned the tap, and while the beer was running she would not let her eyes be idle, but looked up at the wall, and after much peering here and there, saw a pick-axe exactly above her, which the masons had accidentally left there. Who acts: Clever, beer, Hans. A
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Clever Elsie, sentence 10

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Then she placed the can before her, and turned the tap, and while the beer was running she would not let her eyes be idle, but looked up at the wall, and after much peering here and there, saw a pick-axe exactly above her, which the masons had accidentally left there.

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**Who acts:** Clever, beer, Hans · **What happens:** place, turn, run, not let, be, look up · **To what, where:** tap, Hans, pick axe, masons

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Clever Elsie. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Clever, beer, Hans), 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:pg2591:32:10
# text = Then she placed the can before her, and turned the tap, and while the beer was running she would not let her eyes be idle, but looked up at the wall, and after much peering here and there, saw a pick-axe exactly above her, which the masons had accidentally left there.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	placed	place	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
6	before	before	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	tap	tap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
15	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	beer	beer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	ccomp	_	_
24	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
26	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
27	idle	idle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
31	up	up	ADP	RP	_	30	compound:prt	_	_
32	at	at	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
37	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
38	much	much	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	peering	peer	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	44	advcl	_	_
40	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	39	advmod	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	40	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
44	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
45	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
46	pick	pick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	46	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	axe	axe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obj	_	_
49	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	_
50	above	above	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
53	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	58	obj	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	masons	mason	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	58	nsubj:pass	_	_
56	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	58	aux	_	_
57	accidentally	accidentally	ADV	RB	_	58	advmod	_	_
58	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	44	conj	_	_
59	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	58	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **place** | past | Clever |  |  |  | before Hans; then |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent before she=Destination |
| 2 | **turn** | past | Clever *not said here* | the tap |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tap=Theme |
| 3 | **run** | past · progressive | the beer |  |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **not** **let** | would | Clever | Hans |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** | infinitive | Hans *not said here* |  |  |  |  | idle *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **look up** | past | Clever *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at the wall | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at wall=Theme |
| 7 | **peer** | gerund |  |  |  | here |  |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **see** | past |  | a pick axe |  |  |  | above Clever | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer axe=Stimulus |
| 9 | **leave** | past · perfect · passive |  | the masons |  | there |  | accidentally *property* | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme which=Attribute |

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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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