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title: Then Clever Elsie took the pitcher from the wall, went into the cell… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Clever Elsie took the pitcher from the wall, went into the cellar, and tapped the lid briskly as she went, so that the time might not appear long. Who acts: Clever, time. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Clever Elsie, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Clever Elsie, sentence 8

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Then Clever Elsie took the pitcher from the wall, went into the cellar, and tapped the lid briskly as she went, so that the time might not appear long.

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**Who acts:** Clever, time · **What happens:** take, go, tap, not appear · **To what, where:** pitcher, wall, cellar, lid

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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, time), 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:pg2591:32:8
# text = Then Clever Elsie took the pitcher from the wall, went into the cellar, and tapped the lid briskly as she went, so that the time might not appear long.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	Clever	Clever	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Elsie	Elsie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	pitcher	pitcher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	into	into	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	cellar	cellar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	tapped	tap	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	lid	lid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	briskly	briskly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	_
21	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
25	so	so	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
29	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
31	appear	appear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
32	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	31	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | Clever | the pitcher |  | the wall | then |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent pitcher=Theme from wall=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **go** | past | Clever *not said here* |  |  | the cellar |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into cellar=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **tap** | past | Clever *not said here* | the lid |  |  |  | briskly *property* | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent lid=Location |
| 4 | **go** | past | Clever |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **appear** | might | the time |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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