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title: A great deal," said he; "I will creep into the pastor's room through… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: A great deal," said he; "I will creep into the pastor's room through the iron bars, and will reach out to you whatever you want to have." " Who acts: great deal, I, you. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Water of Life, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 128

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A great deal," said he; "I will creep into the pastor's room through the iron bars, and will reach out to you whatever you want to have." "

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**Who acts:** great deal, I, you · **What happens:** say, creep, reach out, want, have · **To what, where:** room, whatever, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Water of Life. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great deal, I, 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:pg11027:17:128
# text = A great deal," said he; "I will creep into the pastor's room through the iron bars, and will reach out to you whatever you want to have." "
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	deal	deal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	creep	creep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
13	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	pastor	pastor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	through	through	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	bars	bar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
26	out	out	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	_
29	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	obj	_	_
30	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	acl:relcl	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
36	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | a great deal |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **creep** | future | I |  |  | the pastor's room |  | through the iron bars | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into room=Destination |
| 3 | **reach out** | future |  | whatever | you |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent whatever=Theme |
| 4 | **want** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 5 | **have** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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