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title: The second one stopped and looked at him from head to foot; but at l… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: The second one stopped and looked at him from head to foot; but at last she said, "How can I take a husband who has not a bit of a human countenance? Who acts: second one, latter, husband. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Goose, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 89

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The second one stopped and looked at him from head to foot; but at last she said, "How can I take a husband who has not a bit of a human countenance?

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**Who acts:** second one, latter, husband · **What happens:** stop, look, say, take, have · **To what, where:** head, last, husband, bit · **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 (second one, latter, husband), 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:pg11027:15:89
# text = The second one stopped and looked at him from head to foot; but at last she said, "How can I take a husband who has not a bit of a human countenance?
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	amod	_	_
3	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	obl	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	24	advmod	_	_
22	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	ccomp	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
28	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	_
29	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	countenance	countenance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | past | the second one |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **look** | past | the second one *not said here* |  |  | head to foot |  | at speech | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | latter |  |  | last |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **take** *in a quote* | can | latter |  | a husband |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument husband=Destination |
| 5 | **have** *in a quote* | present | a husband | a bit of a human countenance |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=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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