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title: See, though, those two children, they would be delicate morsels, and… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: See, though, those two children, they would be delicate morsels, and are as plump as partridges; I beg of you to take them, good Mr. Bear, and let me go!" Who acts: you, children, I, me. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Snow-white and Rose-red, with its dependency tree and the p
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 107

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See, though, those two children, they would be delicate morsels, and are as plump as partridges; I beg of you to take them, good Mr. Bear, and let me go!"

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**Who acts:** you, children, I, me · **What happens:** see, be, beg, take, let, go · **To what, where:** two children, delicate morsels, children, me

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This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, children, I, me), 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:pg11027:23:107
# text = See, though, those two children, they would be delicate morsels, and are as plump as partridges; I beg of you to take them, good Mr. Bear, and let me go!"
1	See	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	though	though	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
6	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
10	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	cop	_	_
12	delicate	delicate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	morsels	morsel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	as	as	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	plump	plump	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
19	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	partridges	partridge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	beg	beg	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	advcl	_	_
28	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
31	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	Bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
36	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	_
37	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	35	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | imperative | you *not said here* | that two children |  |  |  | though *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is a** | would | children *= child* | delicate morsels |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | children *= child* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as partridges; plump *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **beg** *speech: request* | present | I |  |  |  |  | of you | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **take** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | children *= child* |  |  |  | good Mr. Bear *obl* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 6 | **let** | infinitive |  | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **go** | infinitive | me *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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