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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little One-eye, Two-eyes and Three-eyes, sentence 9

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Dry your eyes, then, now," said the wise Woman; "I will tell you something which shall prevent you from being hungry again.

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**Who acts:** wise Woman, I · **What happens:** dry, say, tell, prevent, be · **To what, where:** eyes, something, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (wise Woman, 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:pg11027:25:9
# text = Dry your eyes, then, now," said the wise Woman; "I will tell you something which shall prevent you from being hungry again.
1	Dry	dry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
2	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	Woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	iobj	_	_
20	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	18	obj	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
22	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	prevent	prevent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	acl:relcl	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	cop	_	_
27	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	xcomp	_	_
28	again	again	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dry** | infinitive |  | your eyes |  |  | then; now |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient eye=Result |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | the wise Woman |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | future | I | something | you |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient something=Topic |
| 4 | **prevent** | shall |  | you |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer you=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  | again | hungry *property* | tree rules |

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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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