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title: "Only place in it one of my young toads," replied the large toad, "a… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: "Only place in it one of my young toads," replied the large toad, "and then you can decide how to use it." Who acts: place, you. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Dummling and the Three Feathers, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Dummling and the Three Feathers, sentence 40

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"Only place in it one of my young toads," replied the large toad, "and then you can decide how to use it."

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**Who acts:** place, you · **What happens:** reply, decide, use · **To what, where:** large toad, place · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Dummling and the Three Feathers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (place, you), 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:pg11027:10:40
# text = "Only place in it one of my young toads," replied the large toad, "and then you can decide how to use it."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nmod	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	appos	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	toads	toad	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
13	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	toad	toad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	decide	decide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
24	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	26	advmod	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	ccomp	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | place in trifle | the large toad |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent toad=Topic |
| 2 | **decide** *in a quote* | can | you |  |  |  | then |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **use** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | place |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:** «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (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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