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title: The woman went down, and found all three in the midst of their lamen… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The woman went down, and found all three in the midst of their lamentations, and inquired what was the cause; then Elsie told her also that her future child was to be killed by the pick-axe, when it grew big and had to draw beer, and the pick-axe fell down. Who acts: woman, Elsie, axe, pick axe. A s
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Clever Elsie, sentence 27

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The woman went down, and found all three in the midst of their lamentations, and inquired what was the cause; then Elsie told her also that her future child was to be killed by the pick-axe, when it grew big and had to draw beer, and the pick-axe fell down.

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**Who acts:** woman, Elsie, axe, pick axe, Hans · **What happens:** go down, find, inquire, be, tell, kill · **To what, where:** three, midst, cause, woman, future child, beer · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (woman, Elsie, axe, pick axe), 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:pg2591:32:27
# text = The woman went down, and found all three in the midst of their lamentations, and inquired what was the cause; then Elsie told her also that her future child was to be killed by the pick-axe, when it grew big and had to draw beer, and the pick-axe fell down.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	down	down	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	midst	midst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	lamentations	lamentation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	inquired	inquire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
19	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	22	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
24	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	26	advmod	_	_
25	Elsie	Elsie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
27	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	iobj	_	_
28	also	also	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
29	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
30	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
31	future	future	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj:pass	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux:pass	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
35	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	aux:pass	_	_
36	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	ccomp	_	_
37	by	by	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
39	pick	pick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	axe	axe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
43	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	45	advmod	_	_
44	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
45	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	parataxis	_	_
46	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	xcomp	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
48	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	conj	_	_
49	to	to	PART	TO	_	50	mark	_	_
50	draw	draw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	48	xcomp	_	_
51	beer	beer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
53	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
55	pick	pick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	55	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	axe	axe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	nsubj	_	_
58	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
59	down	down	ADV	RB	_	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 | **go down** | past | the woman |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **find** | past |  | all three |  | the midst of Hans's lamentations |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent three=Topic |
| 3 | **inquire** *speech: other* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | past |  | the cause |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Elsie |  | woman |  | then |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 6 | **kill** *not said to happen* | past · passive |  | Elsie's future child |  |  |  | by the pick axe | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 7 | **grow** | past | axe |  |  |  |  | big *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **have** | past | axe *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **draw** | to-infinitive | axe *not said here* | beer |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beer=Theme |
| 10 | **fall down** | past | the pick axe |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 11 | **lament** |  | Hans *= han* |  |  |  |  |  | nom lamentation «communication transitive»: poss=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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