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title: That's of no consequence, father, if my mother will only harness it,… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: That's of no consequence, father, if my mother will only harness it, I will sit in the horse's ear, and call out to him how he is to go." " Who acts: That, mother, I, Father. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Water of Life, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 86

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That's of no consequence, father, if my mother will only harness it, I will sit in the horse's ear, and call out to him how he is to go." "

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**Who acts:** That, mother, I, Father · **What happens:** be, harness, sit, call out · **To what, where:** horse, ear, Father

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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 (That, mother, I, Father), 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:pg11027:17:86
# text = That's of no consequence, father, if my mother will only harness it, I will sit in the horse's ear, and call out to him how he is to go." "
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	consequence	consequence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
10	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
12	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	only	only	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	harness	harness	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	's	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	call	call	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	19	parataxis	_	_
28	out	out	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	_
31	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	35	advmod	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
33	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
38	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | That |  |  |  |  | of no consequence and father | tree rules |
| 2 | **harness** *a condition, not said to happen* | future | my mother | horse |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Destination |
| 3 | **sit** | future | I |  |  | the horse's ear |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in ear=Location |
| 4 | **call out** *speech: assert* | infinitive |  |  | Father |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient |
| 5 | **is** | present | Father |  |  |  |  | go *property* | tree rules |

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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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