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title: In the evening when she was tired, she had no bed to lie down on, bu… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: In the evening when she was tired, she had no bed to lie down on, but was made to lie by the hearth among the ashes; and as this, of course, made her always dusty and dirty, they called her Ashputtel. Who acts: wife, bed, this, sisters. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Miser i
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Miser in the Bush, sentence 55

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In the evening when she was tired, she had no bed to lie down on, but was made to lie by the hearth among the ashes; and as this, of course, made her always dusty and dirty, they called her Ashputtel.

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**Who acts:** wife, bed, this, sisters · **What happens:** be, have, lie down, make, lie, call · **To what, where:** bed, wife, Ashputtel · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Miser in the Bush. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, bed, this, sisters), 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:pg2591:33:55
# text = In the evening when she was tired, she had no bed to lie down on, but was made to lie by the hearth among the ashes; and as this, of course, made her always dusty and dirty, they called her Ashputtel.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	7	mark	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
11	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	12	det	_	_
12	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	lie	lie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
15	down	down	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	on	on	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	lie	lie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	by	by	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	hearth	hearth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	among	among	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	ashes	ash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
31	as	as	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	37	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	fixed	_	_
35	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
37	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
38	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obj	_	_
39	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	40	advmod	_	_
40	dusty	dusty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	xcomp	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	dirty	dirty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
44	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
45	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	conj	_	_
46	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	47	nmod:poss	_	_
47	Ashputtel	Ashputtel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | wife |  |  |  | evening | tired *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | past | wife | no bed |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **lie down** | to-infinitive | no bed *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **make** | past · passive | wife *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **lie** | to-infinitive | wife *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by the hearth; among the ashes | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by hearth=Location |
| 6 | **make** | past | this | wife |  |  |  | dusty *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset she=Product |
| 7 | **call** | past | sisters *= sister* |  | wife's Ashputtel |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ashputtel=Recipient |

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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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