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title: The cook was frightened when he heard the order, and said to Cat-ski… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The cook was frightened when he heard the order, and said to Cat-skin, ‘You must have let a hair fall into the soup; if it be so, you will have a good beating.’ Who acts: cook, You, soup. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Iron Hans, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 192

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The cook was frightened when he heard the order, and said to Cat-skin, ‘You must have let a hair fall into the soup; if it be so, you will have a good beating.’

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**Who acts:** cook, You, soup · **What happens:** frighten, hear, say, cat, let, fall · **To what, where:** cook, order, skin, You, soup, good beating · **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 (cook, You, soup), 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:pg2591:59:192
# text = The cook was frightened when he heard the order, and said to Cat-skin, ‘You must have let a hair fall into the soup; if it be so, you will have a good beating.’
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cook	cook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	frightened	frighten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Cat	cat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	aux	_	_
22	let	let	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
26	into	into	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	soup	soup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	_
30	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	cop	_	_
33	so	so	ADV	RB	_	37	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
35	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
36	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	beating	beating	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	37	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **frighten** | past · passive |  | the cook |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 2 | **hear** | past | cook | the order |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer order=Stimulus |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **cat** | infinitive |  | skin |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **let** | must · perfect · passive |  | You |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **fall** | infinitive | You *not said here* |  |  |  |  | into the soup *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into soup=Result |
| 7 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | infinitive | soup |  |  |  |  | so *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **have** | future | you | a good beating |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beating=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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