--- title: He looked at them all, held them up to the light, smelt them, and at… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics description: He looked at them all, held them up to the light, smelt them, and at last said, "These jams seem to me to be very nice, so you may weigh me out two ounces, my good woman; I don't object even if you make it a quarter of a pound." Who acts: three, jams, you, I. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (three, jams, you, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg11027:13:5 # text = He looked at them all, held them up to the light, smelt them, and at last said, "These jams seem to me to be very nice, so you may weigh me out two ounces, my good woman; I don't object even if you make it a quarter of a pound." 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 at at ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obl _ _ 5 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 4 nmod:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 held hold VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 8 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ _ 9 up up ADP RP _ 7 compound:prt _ _ 10 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 smelt smelt VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 advcl _ _ 15 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 at at ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 last last NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 20 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 " " PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 These this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 24 det _ _ 24 jams jam NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 25 seem seem VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 26 to to ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 25 obl _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 29 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 31 cop _ _ 30 very very ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 nice nice ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 33 so so ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 34 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 35 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 36 weigh weigh VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 conj _ _ 37 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 36 obj _ _ 38 out out ADP RP _ 36 compound:prt _ _ 39 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 40 nummod _ _ 40 ounces ounce NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 42 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 44 nmod:poss _ _ 43 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 45 ; ; PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 46 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 47 nsubj _ _ 47 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 48 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 49 advmod _ _ 49 object object NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 obj _ _ 50 even even ADV RB _ 53 advmod _ _ 51 if if SCONJ IN _ 53 mark _ _ 52 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 53 nsubj _ _ 53 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 47 advcl _ _ 54 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 53 obj _ _ 55 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 56 det _ _ 56 quarter quarter NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 obj _ _ 57 of of ADP IN _ 59 case _ _ 58 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 59 det _ _ 59 pound pound NOUN NN Number=Sing 56 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 60 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 61 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | past | three | | | | | at pots *= pot* | tree rules | | 2 | **hold up** | past | three *not said here* | pots *= pot* | | | | to the light | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot they=Theme | | 3 | **smelt** | infinitive | three *not said here* | pots *= pot* | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | | | | last | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **seem** *in a quote* | present | this jams | | me | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **is** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | this jams *not said here* | | | | | nice *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **weigh out** *in a quote* | may | you | me | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **do** *in a quote* | present | I | object | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent object=Eventuality | | 9 | **make** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | you | object | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset it=Beneficiary quarter=Product | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/13/4/) - next →: [sentence 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/13/6/) - ↑ back to [The Valiant Little Tailor](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/13/)