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title: That will taste very nice," said he; "but, before I take a bite, I w… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: That will taste very nice," said he; "but, before I take a bite, I will just finish this waistcoat." Who acts: That, Heaven, I. 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 8

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That will taste very nice," said he; "but, before I take a bite, I will just finish this waistcoat."

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**Who acts:** That, Heaven, I · **What happens:** taste, say, take, finish · **To what, where:** bite, waistcoat · **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 (That, Heaven, I), 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:pg11027:13:8
# text = That will taste very nice," said he; "but, before I take a bite, I will just finish this waistcoat."
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	taste	taste	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	bite	bite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	just	just	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	finish	finish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
24	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	det	_	_
25	waistcoat	waistcoat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **taste** | future | That |  |  |  |  | nice *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | Heaven |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **take** | present | I | a bite |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bite=Theme |
| 4 | **finish** | future | I | this waistcoat |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector waistcoat=Eventuality |

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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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