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title: Dummerly said, "I have nothing but dry bread and sour beer; if that… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Dummerly said, "I have nothing but dry bread and sour beer; if that will do for you, we will sit down and eat it together." Who acts: Dummerly, that, we. 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 17

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Dummerly said, "I have nothing but dry bread and sour beer; if that will do for you, we will sit down and eat it together."

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**Who acts:** Dummerly, that, we · **What happens:** say, have, do, sit down, eat · **To what, where:** nothing, beer · **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, that, we), 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:pg11027:15:17
# text = Dummerly said, "I have nothing but dry bread and sour beer; if that will do for you, we will sit down and eat it together."
1	Dummerly	Dummerly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	6	obj	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	sour	sour	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	beer	beer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
15	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	nsubj	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
22	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
25	down	down	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	together	together	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	24	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 |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **have** *in a quote* | present | Dummerly | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient |
| 3 | **do** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | future | that |  |  |  |  | for you | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **sit down** *in a quote* | future | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **eat** *in a quote* | present | we *not said here* | beer |  |  |  | together *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

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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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