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title: His mother gave him a cake made with water and baked in the cinders,… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: His mother gave him a cake made with water and baked in the cinders, and with it a bottle of sour beer. Who acts: mother. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Goose, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Goose, sentence 15

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His mother gave him a cake made with water and baked in the cinders, and with it a bottle of sour beer.

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**Who acts:** mother · **What happens:** give, make, bake · **To what, where:** cake, Dummling

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Goose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother), 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:pg2591:48:15
# text = His mother gave him a cake made with water and baked in the cinders, and with it a bottle of sour beer.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	iobj	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	cake	cake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	baked	bake	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	cinders	cinder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	bottle	bottle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	sour	sour	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	beer	beer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | Dummling's mother | a cake | Dummling |  |  | a bottle of sour beer *obl* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient cake=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | participle |  | a cake *not said here* |  |  |  | with water | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 3 | **bake** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | in the cinders | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Patient in cinder=Instrument |

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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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