--- title: Must I not cry," replied she, "when the goat which used to furnish m… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics description: Must I not cry," replied she, "when the goat which used to furnish me every day with a dinner, according to your promise, has been killed by my mother, and I am again suffering hunger and thirst?" " Who acts: I, goat, mother, your. 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" **Who acts:** I, goat, mother, your · **What happens:** not cry, reply, use, furnish, accord, kill · **To what, where:** Woman, me, promise, goat, hunger · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Little One-eye, Two-eyes and Three-eyes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, goat, mother, your), 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:pg11027:25:61 # text = Must I not cry," replied she, "when the goat which used to furnish me every day with a dinner, according to your promise, has been killed by my mother, and I am again suffering hunger and thirst?" " 1 Must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 cry cry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 7 replied reply VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 8 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 10 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 when when SCONJ WRB _ 32 mark _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 goat goat NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj:pass _ _ 14 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 15 nsubj _ _ 15 used use VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 acl:relcl _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 furnish furnish VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 xcomp _ _ 18 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 20 det _ _ 20 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl:unmarked _ _ 21 with with ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 dinner dinner NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 according accord VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 advcl _ _ 26 to to ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 promise promise NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 30 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 31 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 32 aux:pass _ _ 32 killed kill VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 advcl _ _ 33 by by ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 38 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 39 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 40 again again ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 41 suffering suffer VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 42 hunger hunger NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obj _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 44 thirst thirst NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 46 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 47 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **cry** *speech: express* | must | I | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | I *not said here* | Woman | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent she=Topic | | 3 | **use** | past | the goat | | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 4 | **furnish** | to-infinitive | the goat *not said here* | | me | | day | with a dinner | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent i=Recipient with dinner=Theme | | 5 | **accord** | gerund | the goat *not said here* | | | | | to your promise *goal* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to promise=Goal | | 6 | **kill** | present · perfect · passive | my mother | the goat | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | | 7 | **suffer** | present · progressive | I | hunger and thirst | | | again | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hunger=Stimulus | | 8 | **promise** | | your | | | | | | nom promise «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 60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/25/60/) - next →: [sentence 62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/25/62/) - ↑ back to [Little One-eye, Two-eyes and Three-eyes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/25/)