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title: The Grimms give the legend in their _Deutsche Sagen_ (ed. — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The Grimms give the legend in their _Deutsche Sagen_ (ed. Who acts: Grimms. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XLIV. the Pied Piper, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, XLIV. the Pied Piper, sentence 11

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The Grimms give the legend in their \_Deutsche Sagen\_ (ed.

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**Who acts:** Grimms · **What happens:** give · **To what, where:** legend, Deutsche Sagen

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XLIV. the Pied Piper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Grimms), 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:pg14241:35:11
# text = The Grimms give the legend in their _Deutsche Sagen_ (ed.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Grimms	grimm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	legend	legend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
8	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Deutsche	Deutsche	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Sagen	Sagen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	_
12	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	ed	ed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present | the Grimms | the legend |  | Grimms's Deutsche Sagen |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent legend=Theme |

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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:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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