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title: And she was sent into the kitchen, and made to fetch wood and water,… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And she was sent into the kitchen, and made to fetch wood and water, to blow the fire, pluck the poultry, pick the herbs, sift the ashes, and do all the dirty work. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Iron Hans, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 175

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And she was sent into the kitchen, and made to fetch wood and water, to blow the fire, pluck the poultry, pick the herbs, sift the ashes, and do all the dirty work.

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**What happens:** send, make, fetch, blow, pluck, pick · **To what, where:** light, kitchen, wood, fire, poultry, herbs

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Iron Hans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg2591:59:175
# text = And she was sent into the kitchen, and made to fetch wood and water, to blow the fire, pluck the poultry, pick the herbs, sift the ashes, and do all the dirty work.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	blow	blow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	pluck	pluck	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	poultry	poultry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	pick	pick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	herbs	herb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	sift	sift	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	ashes	ash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
36	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	39	det:predet	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	dirty	dirty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past · passive |  | light |  | the kitchen |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **fetch** | to-infinitive |  | wood and water |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Theme |
| 4 | **blow** | to-infinitive |  | the fire |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent fire=Patient |
| 5 | **pluck** | infinitive |  | the poultry |  |  |  |  | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poultry=Patient |
| 6 | **pick** | infinitive |  | the herbs |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herb=Patient |
| 7 | **sift** | infinitive |  | the ashes |  |  |  |  | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ash=Patient |
| 8 | **do** | infinitive |  | all dirty work |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality |

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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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