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title: They ate and drank heartily, and when they had finished, the little… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: They ate and drank heartily, and when they had finished, the little man said, "As you have a kind heart, and have been willing to share everything with me I will bring good to you. Who acts: bread, little man, you. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Goose, with its depe
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 19

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They ate and drank heartily, and when they had finished, the little man said, "As you have a kind heart, and have been willing to share everything with me I will bring good to you.

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**Who acts:** bread, little man, you · **What happens:** eat, drink, finish, say, have, be · **To what, where:** kind heart, everything, good, you · **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 (bread, little man, you), 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:pg11027:15:19
# text = They ate and drank heartily, and when they had finished, the little man said, "As you have a kind heart, and have been willing to share everything with me I will bring good to you.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	drank	drink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
5	heartily	heartily	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	finished	finish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	advcl	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	29	cop	_	_
29	willing	willing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	ccomp	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	share	share	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	_
32	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	31	obj	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	obl	_	_
35	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
36	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	ccomp	_	_
38	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	obj	_	_
39	to	to	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | past | bread |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **drink** | past | bread *not said here* |  |  |  |  | heartily *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **finish** | past · perfect | bread |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the little man |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **have** *in a quote* | present | you | a kind heart |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient |
| 6 | **is** *in a quote* | present · perfect |  |  |  |  |  | willing *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **share** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | everything |  |  |  | with the little man *= man* | tree rules |
| 8 | **bring** *in a quote* | future | the little man *= man* | good | you |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent good=Theme to you=Destination |

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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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