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title: As soon as the cook went away, Cat-skin heated the king’s soup, and… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: As soon as the cook went away, Cat-skin heated the king’s soup, and toasted a slice of bread first, as nicely as ever she could; and when it was ready, she went and looked in the cabin for her little golden ring, and put it into the dish in which the soup was. Who acts: Cat skin, SKIN, truth. A sent
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 189

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As soon as the cook went away, Cat-skin heated the king’s soup, and toasted a slice of bread first, as nicely as ever she could; and when it was ready, she went and looked in the cabin for her little golden ring, and put it into the dish in which the soup was.

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**Who acts:** Cat skin, SKIN, truth · **What happens:** go away, heat, toast, be, go, look · **To what, where:** soup, slice, cabin, dish, bread

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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 (Cat skin, SKIN, truth), 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:pg2591:59:189
# text = As soon as the cook went away, Cat-skin heated the king’s soup, and toasted a slice of bread first, as nicely as ever she could; and when it was ready, she went and looked in the cabin for her little golden ring, and put it into the dish in which the soup was.
1	As	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	cook	cook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
6	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	away	away	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	Cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	heated	heat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	’s	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	soup	soup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	toasted	toast	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	slice	slice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	as	as	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	nicely	nicely	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
28	as	as	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	27	obl	_	_
30	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
34	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	37	advmod	_	_
35	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
36	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
37	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
40	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	conj	_	_
43	in	in	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	cabin	cabin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
46	for	for	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
47	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	50	nmod:poss	_	_
48	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
49	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
53	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
54	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	obj	_	_
55	into	into	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	dish	dish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obl	_	_
58	in	in	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
59	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	62	obl	_	_
60	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
61	soup	soup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	nsubj	_	_
62	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	57	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go away** | past |  |  |  |  |  | as the cook; away, soon *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **heat** | past | Cat skin | the king's soup |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent soup=Patient |
| 3 | **toast** | past | Cat skin *not said here* | a slice of bread |  |  |  | first, nicely *property* | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent slice=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | past | SKIN |  |  |  |  | ready *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **go** | past | truth |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **look** | past | truth *not said here* |  |  | the cabin |  | for truth's little golden ring | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent in cabin=Location for ring=Theme |
| 7 | **put** | infinitive |  | soup |  | the dish |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal |
| 8 | **slice** |  |  | bread |  |  |  |  | nom slice «possession transitive»: of=patient |

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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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