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title: And when Ashputtel begged very hard to go, she said, ‘If you can in… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And when Ashputtel begged very hard to go, she said, ‘If you can in one hour’s time pick two of those dishes of peas out of the ashes, you shall go too.’ Who acts: Ashputtel, you. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Miser in the Bush, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Miser in the Bush, sentence 78

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And when Ashputtel begged very hard to go, she said, ‘If you can in one hour’s time pick two of those dishes of peas out of the ashes, you shall go too.’

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**Who acts:** Ashputtel, you · **What happens:** beg, go, say, pick · **To what, where:** two · **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 (Ashputtel, you), 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:pg2591:33:78
# text = And when Ashputtel begged very hard to go, she said, ‘If you can in one hour’s time pick two of those dishes of peas out of the ashes, you shall go too.’
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
3	Ashputtel	Ashputtel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	begged	beg	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
13	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	’s	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
22	pick	pick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
23	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	26	det	_	_
26	dishes	dish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	peas	pea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
29	out	out	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	ashes	ash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
35	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
37	too	too	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beg** *speech: request* | past | Ashputtel |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **go** | to-infinitive | Ashputtel *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | ASHPUTTEL |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **pick** | can |  | two of that dishes of peas out the ashes |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent two=Patient |
| 5 | **go** | shall | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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