--- title: The truth was, that she had run into her little cabin, pulled off he… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: The truth was, that she had run into her little cabin, pulled off her dress, blackened her face and hands, put on the fur-skin cloak, and was Cat-skin again. Who acts: truth, little cabin. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Iron Hans, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/59/187/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Grimms' Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/) / [Iron Hans](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/59/) / 187 # Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 187 The truth was, that she had run into her little cabin, pulled off her dress, blackened her face and hands, put on the fur-skin cloak, and was Cat-skin again. **Who acts:** truth, little cabin · **What happens:** be, pull off, blacken, put · **To what, where:** truth, little cabin, dress, face, skin cloak, Cat skin 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: who acts (truth, little cabin), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2591:59:187 # text = The truth was, that she had run into her little cabin, pulled off her dress, blackened her face and hands, put on the fur-skin cloak, and was Cat-skin again. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 truth truth NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 5 that that SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 6 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 7 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 run run VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 2 acl:relcl _ _ 9 into into 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 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 cabin cabin NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 pulled pull VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 acl _ _ 15 off off ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 dress dress NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 19 blackened blacken VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 20 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 put put VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 acl _ _ 26 on on ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 28 fur fur NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 29 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 31 cloak cloak NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 34 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 cop _ _ 35 Cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 36 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 38 again again ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 19 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past · perfect | truth | the truth *not said here* | | truth's little cabin | | run *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **pull off** | participle | truth's little cabin *not said here* | truth's dress | | | | | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dress=Eventuality | | 3 | **blacken** | past | the truth | truth's face and hands | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent face=Patient | | 4 | **put** | participle | | truth's face and hands *not said here* | | the skin cloak | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on cloak=Destination | | 5 | **is a** | past | | Cat skin | | | again | | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 186](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/59/186/) - next →: [sentence 188](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/59/188/) - ↑ back to [Iron Hans](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/59/)