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title: When she went into the kitchen to her work, and began to rake the as… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When she went into the kitchen to her work, and began to rake the ashes, the cook said, ‘Let that alone till the morning, and heat the king’s soup; I should like to run up now and give a peep: but take care you don’t let a hair fall into it, or you will run a chance of never eating again.’ Who acts:
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 188

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When she went into the kitchen to her work, and began to rake the ashes, the cook said, ‘Let that alone till the morning, and heat the king’s soup; I should like to run up now and give a peep: but take care you don’t let a hair fall into it, or you will run a chance of never eating again.’

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**Who acts:** truth, cook, heat, I, you, hair · **What happens:** go, begin, rake, say, let, soup · **To what, where:** kitchen, ashes, peep, care, hair, heat · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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: who acts (truth, cook, heat, I), 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:pg2591:59:188
# text = When she went into the kitchen to her work, and began to rake the ashes, the cook said, ‘Let that alone till the morning, and heat the king’s soup; I should like to run up now and give a peep: but take care you don’t let a hair fall into it, or you will run a chance of never eating again.’
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	rake	rake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	ashes	ash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	cook	cook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	20	ccomp	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
25	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	23	fixed	_	_
26	till	till	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
31	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	’s	's	PART	POS	_	33	case	_	_
35	soup	soup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
38	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
39	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
40	to	to	PART	TO	_	41	mark	_	_
41	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	xcomp	_	_
42	up	up	ADP	RP	_	41	compound:prt	_	_
43	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	41	advmod	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	conj	_	_
46	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	peep	peep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	50	punct	_	_
49	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
50	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	ccomp	_	_
51	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obj	_	_
52	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	55	nsubj	_	_
53	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	55	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	55	advmod	_	_
55	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	50	parataxis	_	_
56	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obj	_	_
58	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	55	xcomp	_	_
59	into	into	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
60	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	58	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	65	punct	_	_
62	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	65	cc	_	_
63	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	65	nsubj	_	_
64	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	65	aux	_	_
65	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	50	conj	_	_
66	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	67	det	_	_
67	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	65	obj	_	_
68	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	70	mark	_	_
69	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	70	advmod	_	_
70	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	67	acl	_	_
71	again	again	ADV	RB	_	70	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
72	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	50	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
73	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	50	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | truth |  |  | the kitchen |  | to truth's work | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme into kitchen=Initial\_Location to work=Destination |
| 2 | **begin** | past | truth *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **rake** | to-infinitive | truth *not said here* | the ashes |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP V NP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent ash=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the cook |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **let** | infinitive |  |  |  |  | morning |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **soup** |  | heat |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **like** | should | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 8 | **run up** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  | now |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 9 | **give** | infinitive | I *not said here* | a peep |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peep=Theme |
| 10 | **take** | infinitive |  | care |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme |
| 11 | **not** **let** | present · do-support | you | a hair |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 12 | **fall** | infinitive | a hair *not said here* |  |  | heat |  |  | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into it=Result |
| 13 | **run** | future | you | a chance |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme chance=Trajectory |
| 14 | **not** **eat** | gerund | a chance *not said here* |  |  |  | again |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 15 | **work** |  | truth |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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