--- title: "'To-day I stew, and then I'll bake, To-morrow I shall the Queen's c… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics description: "'To-day I stew, and then I'll bake, To-morrow I shall the Queen's child take; Ah! how famous it is that nobody knows That my name is Rumpelstiltskin.'" Who acts: messenger, nobody, name, my. 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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 (messenger, nobody, name, my), 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:pg11027:24:119 # text = "'To-day I stew, and then I'll bake, To-morrow I shall the Queen's child take; Ah! how famous it is that nobody knows That my name is Rumpelstiltskin.'" 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 To to ADP IN _ 5 case _ SpaceAfter=No 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 6 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 stew stew VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 10 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 13 advmod _ _ 11 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 bake bake VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 To to ADP IN _ 17 case _ SpaceAfter=No 16 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 morrow morrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 18 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 19 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 22 's 's PART POS _ 21 case _ _ 23 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ; ; PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ _ 26 Ah ah INTJ UH _ 29 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ! ! PUNCT . _ 26 punct _ _ 28 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 29 advmod _ _ 29 famous famous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 conj _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 31 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 32 that that SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 33 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 34 nsubj _ _ 34 knows know VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 advcl _ _ 35 That that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 37 det _ _ 36 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 38 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 cop _ _ 39 Rumpelstiltskin Rumpelstiltskin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stew** *in a quote* | present | the messenger *= messenger* | | | | day | | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **bake** *in a quote* | future | the messenger *= messenger* | | | | then | | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **take** *in a quote* | shall | the messenger *= messenger* | morrow *not said here* | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent morrow=Theme | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | messenger | | | | | famous *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **know** *in a quote* | present | nobody | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | my name | Rumpelstiltskin | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **name** *in a quote* | | my | | | | | | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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 118](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/24/118/) - next →: [sentence 120](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/24/120/) - ↑ back to [The Three Little Men in the Wood](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/24/)