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title: Then Dummerly said, "Father, I should like to go and cut fuel too." — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Dummerly said, "Father, I should like to go and cut fuel too." Who acts: Dummerly. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Goose, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 13

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Then Dummerly said, "Father, I should like to go and cut fuel too."

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**Who acts:** Dummerly · **What happens:** say, like, go, cut · **To what, where:** Father, fuel · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Goose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dummerly), 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:pg11027:15:13
# text = Then Dummerly said, "Father, I should like to go and cut fuel too."
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Dummerly	Dummerly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Father	Father	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl:relcl	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	cut	cut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
15	fuel	fuel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	too	too	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Dummerly |  |  |  | then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **like** *in a quote* | should | Dummerly | Father *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | Dummerly *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **cut** *in a quote* | infinitive | Dummerly *not said here* | fuel |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fuel=Product |

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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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