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title: Now, he had collected a tolerable sum of silver dollars, which he ch… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Now, he had collected a tolerable sum of silver dollars, which he changed into gold, and then he told his wife, "Do you see, these are yellow counters which I will put in a pot and bury in the stable under the cow's stall; but mind that you do not meddle with it, or you will come to some harm." Who 
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Catherine and Frederick, sentence 22

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Now, he had collected a tolerable sum of silver dollars, which he changed into gold, and then he told his wife, "Do you see, these are yellow counters which I will put in a pot and bury in the stable under the cow's stall; but mind that you do not meddle with it, or you will come to some harm."

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**Who acts:** husband, silver dollars, wife, these, yellow counters · **What happens:** collect, change, tell, see, be, put · **To what, where:** tolerable sum, gold, wife, yellow counters, pot, stable · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Catherine and Frederick. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband, silver dollars, wife, these), 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:pg11027:12:22
# text = Now, he had collected a tolerable sum of silver dollars, which he changed into gold, and then he told his wife, "Do you see, these are yellow counters which I will put in a pot and bury in the stable under the cow's stall; but mind that you do not meddle with it, or you will come to some harm."
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	collected	collect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	tolerable	tolerable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	sum	sum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	dollars	dollar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	changed	change	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
16	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	Do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	34	nsubj	_	_
32	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
33	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	counters	counter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
35	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	38	nsubj	_	_
36	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
37	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	acl:relcl	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	bury	bury	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	conj	_	_
44	in	in	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	stable	stable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
47	under	under	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	's	's	PART	POS	_	49	case	_	_
51	stall	stall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	54	punct	_	_
53	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
54	mind	mind	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
55	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	59	mark	_	_
56	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	59	nsubj	_	_
57	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	59	aux	_	_
58	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	59	advmod	_	_
59	meddle	meddle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	54	advcl	_	_
60	with	with	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
61	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	59	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	66	punct	_	_
63	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	66	cc	_	_
64	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	66	nsubj	_	_
65	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	66	aux	_	_
66	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	54	advcl	_	_
67	to	to	ADP	IN	_	69	case	_	_
68	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	69	det	_	_
69	harm	harm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	66	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
70	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
71	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **collect** | past · perfect | husband | a tolerable sum of silver dollars |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **change** | past | silver dollars |  |  |  |  | into gold *result* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into gold=Result |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | husband |  | husband's wife |  | then |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent wife=Recipient |
| 4 | **see** *in a quote* | present · do-support | husband's wife *= wife* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | these | yellow counters |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **put** *in a quote* | future | yellow counters |  |  | a pot |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in pot=Destination |
| 7 | **bury** *in a quote* | infinitive | yellow counters *not said here* |  |  | the stable |  | under the cow's stall | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in stable=Destination |
| 8 | **mind** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 9 | **not** **meddle** *in a quote* | present · do-support | husband's wife *= wife* |  |  |  |  | with stall | tree rules |
| 10 | **come** *in a quote* | future | husband's wife *= wife* |  |  | some harm |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to harm=Initial\_Location |
| 11 | **sum** |  |  | silver dollars |  |  |  |  | nom sum «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:** «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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