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title: She took nothing with her but a little ring which her father and mot… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: She took nothing with her but a little ring which her father and mother had given her, a loaf of bread in case she should be hungry, a little pitcher of water in case she should be thirsty, and a little stool to rest upon when she should be weary. Who acts: daughter, father. A sentence of «Grimms' F
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Seven Ravens, sentence 13

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She took nothing with her but a little ring which her father and mother had given her, a loaf of bread in case she should be hungry, a little pitcher of water in case she should be thirsty, and a little stool to rest upon when she should be weary.

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**Who acts:** daughter, father · **What happens:** take, give, be, rest · **To what, where:** nothing, daughter

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Seven Ravens. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter, father), 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:pg2591:53:13
# text = She took nothing with her but a little ring which her father and mother had given her, a loaf of bread in case she should be hungry, a little pitcher of water in case she should be thirsty, and a little stool to rest upon when she should be weary.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	2	obj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nmod	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	obj	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
17	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	loaf	loaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	28	case	_	_
24	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	fixed	_	_
25	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
26	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	cop	_	_
28	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	pitcher	pitcher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	40	case	_	_
36	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	fixed	_	_
37	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
38	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
39	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	cop	_	_
40	thirsty	thirsty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
43	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	stool	stool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
46	to	to	PART	TO	_	47	mark	_	_
47	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	45	acl	_	_
48	upon	upon	SCONJ	IN	_	53	mark	_	_
49	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	53	mark	_	_
50	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	nsubj	_	_
51	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	53	aux	_	_
52	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	53	cop	_	_
53	weary	weary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | daughter | nothing |  |  |  | with girl; a loaf of bread *obl*; a little pitcher of water *obl*; a little stool *obl* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme |
| 2 | **give** | past · perfect | daughter's father and mother |  | daughter |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient which=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | should | daughter |  |  |  |  | hungry *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | should | daughter |  |  |  |  | thirsty *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **rest** | to-infinitive | daughter *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **is** | should | daughter |  |  |  |  | weary *property* | 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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