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title: "Drip, drap, drop, Will the milking soon stop?" — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: "Drip, drap, drop, Will the milking soon stop?" Who acts: you, milking. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Travels of Tom Thumb, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Travels of Tom Thumb, sentence 48

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"Drip, drap, drop, Will the milking soon stop?"

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**Who acts:** you, milking · **What happens:** drap, drop, stop · **To what, where:** Drip

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This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Travels of Tom Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, milking), 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:pg11027:22:48
# text = "Drip, drap, drop, Will the milking soon stop?"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Drip	drip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	drap	drap	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	drop	drop	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	Will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	milking	milking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
12	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drap** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | Drip |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **drop** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **stop** *in a quote* | future | the milking |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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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