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title: It was a pity the man's face was covered with dirt and hair, else on… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: It was a pity the man's face was covered with dirt and hair, else one would have seen how glad at heart these words made him. Who acts: service, one, words. 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 92

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It was a pity the man's face was covered with dirt and hair, else one would have seen how glad at heart these words made him.

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**Who acts:** service, one, words · **What happens:** be, cover, see, make · **To what, where:** pity, heart, man · **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 (service, one, words), 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:pg11027:15:92
# text = It was a pity the man's face was covered with dirt and hair, else one would have seen how glad at heart these words made him.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	pity	pity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	dirt	dirt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	else	else	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
17	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	aux	_	_
20	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
21	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	22	advmod	_	_
22	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	xcomp	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	26	det	_	_
26	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
27	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	ccomp	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | service | a pity |  |  |  | the man's face *nmod* | tree rules |
| 2 | **cover** | past · passive |  | a pity |  |  |  | with dirt and hair | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with dirt=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | would · perfect | one |  |  | heart |  | else, glad *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **make** | past | this words | man |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=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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