--- title: Yes," she replied, "that I will, for it is my property"; and climbin… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics description: Yes," she replied, "that I will, for it is my property"; and climbing up, she easily broke off a branch with silver leaves and golden fruit, which she handed to the Knight. " Who acts: Eye, tree, golden fruit. 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" **Who acts:** Eye, tree, golden fruit · **What happens:** reply, be, climb up, break off, hand · **To what, where:** branch, Knight · **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 (Eye, tree, golden fruit), 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:pg11027:25:87 # text = Yes," she replied, "that I will, for it is my property"; and climbing up, she easily broke off a branch with silver leaves and golden fruit, which she handed to the Knight. " 1 Yes yes INTJ UH Polarity=Pos 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 4 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 replied reply VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 9 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 for for ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 15 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 property property NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 17 " " PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 20 climbing climb VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 25 advcl _ _ 21 up up ADP RP _ 20 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 23 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 24 easily easily ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 broke break VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 26 off off ADP RP _ 25 compound:prt _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 branch branch NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 29 with with ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 silver silver NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 31 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nmod _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 33 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 fruit fruit NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 38 nsubj _ _ 37 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 handed hand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 acl:relcl _ _ 39 to to ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 Knight knight NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ 43 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | Eye | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **is** | present | tree | | | | | for my property | tree rules | | 3 | **climb up** *in a quote* | gerund | Eye *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **break off** *in a quote* | past | Eye | a branch | | | | with silver leaves and golden fruit; easily *property* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent branch=Patient with leaf=Instrument | | 5 | **hand** *in a quote* | past | golden fruit | | the Knight | | | | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to knight=Destination | 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 86](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/25/86/) - next →: [sentence 88](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/25/88/) - ↑ back to [Little One-eye, Two-eyes and Three-eyes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/25/)