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title: She went down into the garden and strewed with her own hands ten sac… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: She went down into the garden and strewed with her own hands ten sacksful of millet-seed on the grass; then she said: ‘Tomorrow morning before sunrise these must be picked up, and not a single grain be wanting.’ Who acts: princess, single grain. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Th
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The White Snake, sentence 46

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She went down into the garden and strewed with her own hands ten sacksful of millet-seed on the grass; then she said: ‘Tomorrow morning before sunrise these must be picked up, and not a single grain be wanting.’

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**Who acts:** princess, single grain · **What happens:** go down, strew, say, pick up, want · **To what, where:** garden, sunrise · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The White Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, single grain), 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:pg2591:34:46
# text = She went down into the garden and strewed with her own hands ten sacksful of millet-seed on the grass; then she said: ‘Tomorrow morning before sunrise these must be picked up, and not a single grain be wanting.’
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	down	down	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	strewed	strew	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
13	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	conj	_	_
14	sacksful	sacksful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	millet	millet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
23	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	25	advmod	_	_
24	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
27	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	Tomorrow	Tomorrow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
30	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
31	sunrise	sunrise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj:pass	_	_
32	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	35	nsubj:pass	_	_
33	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
34	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	aux:pass	_	_
35	picked	pick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	ccomp	_	_
36	up	up	ADP	RP	_	35	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
39	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	42	advmod	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	grain	grain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nsubj	_	_
43	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	44	aux	_	_
44	wanting	want	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	44	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	44	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go down** | past | princess |  |  | the garden |  | down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **strew** | participle | princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with princess's own hands | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with hand=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | princess |  |  |  | then; morning |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **pick up** | must · passive |  | sunrise |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 5 | **want** | infinitive · progressive | a single grain |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

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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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