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title: The woman, who hoped to have met with a good customer, gave him all… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: The woman, who hoped to have met with a good customer, gave him all he wished, and went off grumbling, and in a very bad temper. Who acts: woman, three. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Valiant Little Tailor, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 6

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The woman, who hoped to have met with a good customer, gave him all he wished, and went off grumbling, and in a very bad temper.

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**Who acts:** woman, three · **What happens:** hope, meet, give, wish, go off, grumble · **To what, where:** all, three, bad temper · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Valiant Little Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, three), 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:pg11027:13:6
# text = The woman, who hoped to have met with a good customer, gave him all he wished, and went off grumbling, and in a very bad temper.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	hoped	hope	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
7	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	aux	_	_
8	met	meet	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	ccomp	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	customer	customer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
14	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	iobj	_	_
16	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	obj	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	wished	wish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
22	off	off	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	grumbling	grumble	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
28	very	very	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	temper	temper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hope** | past | the woman |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **meet** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive · perfect |  |  |  |  |  | with a good customer | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with customer=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **give** | past | the woman | all | three | a bad temper |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient all=Theme |
| 4 | **wish** | past | three |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 5 | **go off** | past | the woman *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **grumble** *speech: other* | gerund | the woman *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn complain-37.8 «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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