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title: And we will not sell you again; no, not for all the riches in the wo… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: And we will not sell you again; no, not for all the riches in the world," said his parents, and they embraced and kissed their dear Thumbling. Who acts: we, riches. 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 181

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And we will not sell you again; no, not for all the riches in the world," said his parents, and they embraced and kissed their dear Thumbling.

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**Who acts:** we, riches · **What happens:** not sell, say, embrace, kiss · **To what, where:** you, parents, dear Thumbling · **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 (we, riches), 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:pg11027:17:181
# text = And we will not sell you again; no, not for all the riches in the world," said his parents, and they embraced and kissed their dear Thumbling.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	sell	sell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	ccomp	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	iobj	_	_
7	again	again	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	no	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	15	det:predet	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	riches	rich	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
21	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	embraced	embrace	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	kissed	kiss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
30	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
31	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	Thumbling	thumbling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **sell** | future | we |  | you |  | again |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | all riches in the world | Father's parents |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **embrace** *in a quote* | past | riches *= rich* |  |  |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **kiss** *in a quote* | past | riches *= rich* *not said here* | riches's dear Thumbling |  |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thumbling=Co-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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