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title: Grimm, No. 34, "Die kluge Else." — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: Grimm, No. 34, "Die kluge Else." Who acts: you. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 8, sentence 149

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Grimm, No. 34, "Die kluge Else."

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** die, kluge

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg22373:18:149
# text = Grimm, No. 34, "Die kluge Else."
1	Grimm	Grimm	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	No.	No.	PROPN	NNP	Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing	4	nmod:unmarked	_	_
4	34	34	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Die	die	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	kluge	kluge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
9	Else	else	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | Grimm *vocative* | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **kluge** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | else *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:** «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (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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