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title: I can do that still better," said the youth, and went to another anv… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: I can do that still better," said the youth, and went to another anvil, while the old man followed him and watched him, with his long beard hanging down. Who acts: I, old man, long beard. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, with its dependency tree and t
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 156

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I can do that still better," said the youth, and went to another anvil, while the old man followed him and watched him, with his long beard hanging down.

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**Who acts:** I, old man, long beard · **What happens:** do, say, go, follow, watch, hang down · **To what, where:** that, youth, anvil, man · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, old man, long beard), 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:pg11027:9:156
# text = I can do that still better," said the youth, and went to another anvil, while the old man followed him and watched him, with his long beard hanging down.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	parataxis	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	obj	_	_
5	still	still	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	det	_	_
17	anvil	anvil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	watched	watch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
31	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	beard	beard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
33	hanging	hang	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	32	acl	_	_
34	down	down	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | can | I | that |  |  |  | good *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past |  | the youth |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** *in a quote* | past |  |  |  | another anvil |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to anvil=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **follow** *in a quote* | past | the old man | youth |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 5 | **watch** *in a quote* | past |  | man |  |  |  | with man's long beard | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 6 | **hang down** *in a quote* | gerund | man's long beard *not said here* |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «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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