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title: Not content with making it shorter before, you are now making it sti… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Not content with making it shorter before, you are now making it still smaller, and completely spoiling it. Who acts: you. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Snow-white and Rose-red, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 80

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Not content with making it shorter before, you are now making it still smaller, and completely spoiling it.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** not content, make, spoil · **To what, where:** use

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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), 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:pg11027:23:80
# text = Not content with making it shorter before, you are now making it still smaller, and completely spoiling it.
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	content	content	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	shorter	short	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	xcomp	_	_
7	before	before	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
12	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	still	still	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	completely	completely	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	spoiling	spoil	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **content** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **make** | gerund | you *not said here* | use |  |  |  | short *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |
| 3 | **make** | present · progressive | you | use |  |  | now | small *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product |
| 4 | **spoil** | gerund | you *not said here* | use |  |  |  | completely *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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