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title: You are growing stout and big; you must learn some trade to get your… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: You are growing stout and big; you must learn some trade to get your living by. Who acts: You, your. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 6

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You are growing stout and big; you must learn some trade to get your living by.

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**Who acts:** You, your · **What happens:** grow, be, learn, get, live · **To what, where:** trade, living

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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 (You, your), 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:pg11027:9:6
# text = You are growing stout and big; you must learn some trade to get your living by.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	amod	_	_
4	stout	stout	ADJ	NN	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
11	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	det	_	_
12	trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
15	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	living	living	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | You |  |  |  |  | stout *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | You *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **learn** | must | you | some trade |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **get** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | your living |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer living=Stimulus |
| 6 | **live** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom living «cognition intransitive»: poss=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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