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title: Give us some of that," exclaimed the Dwarfs; but she answered, "I ha… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Give us some of that," exclaimed the Dwarfs; but she answered, "I have not got enough for myself, so how can I give any away?" Who acts: you, girl, I. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Three Little Men in the Wood, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Three Little Men in the Wood, sentence 46

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Give us some of that," exclaimed the Dwarfs; but she answered, "I have not got enough for myself, so how can I give any away?"

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**Who acts:** you, girl, I · **What happens:** give, exclaim, answer, not get, give away · **To what, where:** some, us, Dwarfs, any · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Three Little Men in the Wood. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, girl, I), 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:pg11027:24:46
# text = Give us some of that," exclaimed the Dwarfs; but she answered, "I have not got enough for myself, so how can I give any away?"
1	Give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	iobj	_	_
3	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	1	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
8	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Dwarfs	dwarf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	ccomp	_	_
21	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	so	so	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
26	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	29	advmod	_	_
27	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
30	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	29	obj	_	_
31	away	away	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	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 | **give** | imperative | you *not said here* | some | us |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **exclaim** *speech: express* *in a quote* | past | you *not said here* | the Dwarfs |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent dwarf=Topic |
| 3 | **answer** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | girl |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **get** | present · perfect | I |  |  |  |  | for myself; enough *property* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent for myself=Source |
| 5 | **give away** | can | I | any |  |  |  | away *property* | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent any=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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