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title: Ah!" said he to his Sister, "let me go to the hunt, I cannot restrai… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Ah!" said he to his Sister, "let me go to the hunt, I cannot restrain myself any longer;" and he begged so hard that at last she consented. " Who acts: King, me, I, Sister. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Little Brother and Sister, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Little Brother and Sister, sentence 25

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Ah!" said he to his Sister, "let me go to the hunt, I cannot restrain myself any longer;" and he begged so hard that at last she consented. "

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**Who acts:** King, me, I, Sister · **What happens:** say, let, go, not restrain, beg, consent · **To what, where:** me, hunt, myself, last · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Little Brother and Sister. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, me, I, Sister), 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:pg11027:7:25
# text = Ah!" said he to his Sister, "let me go to the hunt, I cannot restrain myself any longer;" and he begged so hard that at last she consented. "
1	Ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	Sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
12	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	hunt	hunt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	restrain	restrain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
22	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	21	obj	_	_
23	any	any	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	begged	beg	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
30	so	so	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	xcomp	_	_
32	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
33	at	at	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	obl	_	_
35	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	consented	consent	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
38	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | King |  |  |  |  | to King's Sister | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to sister=Experiencer clause=Topic |
| 2 | **let** | infinitive |  | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | infinitive | me *not said here* |  |  | the hunt |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to hunt=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **not** **restrain** | can | I | myself |  |  |  | long *property* | vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer myself=Eventuality |
| 5 | **beg** *speech: request* *in a quote* | past | King |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **consent** *in a quote* | past | Sister |  |  | last |  |  | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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