--- title: "Yes," replied the wife, and sighed, "even if we had only one, and i… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics description: "Yes," replied the wife, and sighed, "even if we had only one, and it were quite small, and only as big as a thumb, I should be quite satisfied, and we would still love it with all our hearts." Who acts: wife, fire, peasant, we. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, fire, peasant, we), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg11027:17:79 # text = "Yes," replied the wife, and sighed, "even if we had only one, and it were quite small, and only as big as a thumb, I should be quite satisfied, and we would still love it with all our hearts." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Yes yes INTJ UH Polarity=Pos 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 5 replied reply VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 sighed sigh VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 12 " " PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 even even ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 14 if if SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 15 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 16 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 17 only only ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 22 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 23 quite quite ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 27 only only ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 28 as as ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 parataxis _ _ 30 as as ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 thumb thumb NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 34 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 35 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 36 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 38 cop _ _ 37 quite quite ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 38 satisfied satisfied ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 41 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 42 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 44 aux _ _ 43 still still ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 44 love love VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 parataxis _ _ 45 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 obj _ _ 46 with with ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 47 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 49 det:predet _ _ 48 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 49 nmod:poss _ _ 49 hearts heart NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 51 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | the wife | | | | | | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **sigh** | past | the wife *not said here* | one | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | past | fire | | | | | small *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | should | peasant | | | | | satisfied *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **love** *in a quote* | would | we | fire | | | still | with our hearts | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 78](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/17/78/) - next →: [sentence 80](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/17/80/) - ↑ back to [The Water of Life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/17/)