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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Clever Elsie, sentence 9

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When she was below she fetched herself a chair, and set it before the barrel so that she had no need to stoop, and did not hurt her back or do herself any unexpected injury.

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**Who acts:** Clever · **What happens:** be, fetch, set, have, stoop, not hurt back · **To what, where:** Clever, chair, barrel, need

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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), 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:pg2591:32:9
# text = When she was below she fetched herself a chair, and set it before the barrel so that she had no need to stoop, and did not hurt her back or do herself any unexpected injury.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	below	below	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	fetched	fetch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	6	obj	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	chair	chair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	before	before	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	barrel	barrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	20	mark	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	fixed	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
21	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	22	det	_	_
22	need	need	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	stoop	stoop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
29	hurt	hurt	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
30	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	back	back	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
32	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	do	do	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	_
34	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	33	obj	_	_
35	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	37	det	_	_
36	unexpected	unexpected	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	injury	injury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Clever |  |  |  |  | below *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **fetch** | past | Clever | Clever |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent herself=Beneficiary chair=Theme |
| 3 | **set** | infinitive | Clever *not said here* | chair |  | the barrel |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme before barrel=Destination |
| 4 | **have** | past | Clever | no need |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent need=Patient |
| 5 | **stoop** | to-infinitive | Clever *not said here* | no need *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **not** **hurt back** | past · do-support |  | Clever |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Patient |
| 7 | **do** | infinitive |  | Clever |  |  |  |  | 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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