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title: So she sat down and tried to spin; but the threads cut her tender fi… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So she sat down and tried to spin; but the threads cut her tender fingers till the blood ran. Who acts: place, threads, blood. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, King Grisly-beard, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, King Grisly-beard, sentence 46

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So she sat down and tried to spin; but the threads cut her tender fingers till the blood ran.

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**Who acts:** place, threads, blood · **What happens:** sit down, try, spin, cut, run · **To what, where:** tender fingers

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, King Grisly-beard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (place, threads, blood), 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:pg2591:58:46
# text = So she sat down and tried to spin; but the threads cut her tender fingers till the blood ran.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	down	down	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	spin	spin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	threads	thread	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	cut	cut	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	tender	tender	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
17	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit down** | past | place |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **try** | past | place *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **spin** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | place *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **cut** | past | the threads | place's tender fingers |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset finger=Product |
| 5 | **run** | past | the blood |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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