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title: Butter and cheese will not please; I will bring with me a bag of dri… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Butter and cheese will not please; I will bring with me a bag of dried apples and a mug of vinegar to drink." Who acts: Butter. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Catherine and Frederick, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Catherine and Frederick, sentence 63

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Butter and cheese will not please; I will bring with me a bag of dried apples and a mug of vinegar to drink."

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**Who acts:** Butter · **What happens:** not bring, dry, drink · **To what, where:** bag

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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 (Butter), 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:pg11027:12:63
# text = Butter and cheese will not please; I will bring with me a bag of dried apples and a mug of vinegar to drink."
1	Butter	butter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:outer	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	cheese	cheese	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
6	please	please	INTJ	UH	_	10	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	dried	dry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	_
17	apples	apple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	mug	mug	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	vinegar	vinegar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **bring** | future | Butter and cheese | a bag of dried apples and a mug of vinegar |  |  |  | with me | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent bag=Theme |
| 2 | **dry** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **drink** | to-infinitive | Butter and cheese *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:** «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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