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title: Then Thumbling again cried as loudly as he could, "I really will giv… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Thumbling again cried as loudly as he could, "I really will give you everything, only put your hands in." Who acts: I. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Water of Life, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 137

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Then Thumbling again cried as loudly as he could, "I really will give you everything, only put your hands in."

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** thumbl, cry, give, put in · **To what, where:** everything, you, hands · **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 (I), 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:pg11027:17:137
# text = Then Thumbling again cried as loudly as he could, "I really will give you everything, only put your hands in."
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	Thumbling	thumbl	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advmod	_	_
3	again	again	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	as	as	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	loudly	loudly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
7	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	really	really	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	iobj	_	_
17	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	only	only	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
21	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **thumbl** | gerund |  |  |  |  | then; again |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past |  |  |  |  |  | loudly *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **give** *in a quote* | future | I | everything | you |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient everything=Theme |
| 4 | **put in** *in a quote* | infinitive | I *not said here* | your hands |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hand=Goal |

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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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