--- title: Beg your sisters to give you the entrails of the goat, and bury them… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics description: Beg your sisters to give you the entrails of the goat, and bury them in the earth before the house door, and your fortune will be made." Who acts: you. 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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 (you), 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:pg11027:25:63 # text = Beg your sisters to give you the entrails of the goat, and bury them in the earth before the house door, and your fortune will be made." 1 Beg beg VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 sisters sister NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 xcomp _ _ 6 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 iobj _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 entrails entrail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 goat goat NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 bury bury VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 15 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 19 before before ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 25 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 fortune fortune NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj:pass _ _ 27 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 28 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 29 aux:pass _ _ 29 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 1 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 30 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 " " PUNCT '' _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **beg** *speech: request* | imperative | you *not said here* | | your sisters | | | | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent sister=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **give** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | the entrails of the goat | you | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient entrail=Theme | | 3 | **bury** | infinitive | you *not said here* | entrails *= entrail* | | the earth | before the house door | | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in earth=Destination | | 4 | **make** | future · passive | | your fortune | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | 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 62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/25/62/) - next →: [sentence 64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/25/64/) - ↑ back to [Little One-eye, Two-eyes and Three-eyes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/25/)