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title: ‘Nothing ever seems so good as what one keeps to oneself,’ said she,… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Nothing ever seems so good as what one keeps to oneself,’ said she, and was quite satisfied with her day’s work. Who acts: Nothing, cat, day. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Cat and Mouse in Partnership, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Cat and Mouse in Partnership, sentence 23

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‘Nothing ever seems so good as what one keeps to oneself,’ said she, and was quite satisfied with her day’s work.

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**Who acts:** Nothing, cat, day · **What happens:** seem, keep, say, be, work · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Cat and Mouse in Partnership. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nothing, cat, day), 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:pg2591:14:23
# text = ‘Nothing ever seems so good as what one keeps to oneself,’ said she, and was quite satisfied with her day’s work.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	4	nsubj	_	_
3	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	4	advmod	_	_
4	seems	seem	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	ccomp	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
7	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	10	nsubj	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nsubj	_	_
10	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	oneself	oneself	PRON	PRP	PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
15	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	satisfied	satisfied	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	ccomp	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	’s	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | present | Nothing |  |  |  | ever | good *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **keep** | present |  |  |  |  |  | to oneself | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | cat |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | with cat's day's work; satisfied *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **work** |  | cat's day |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act 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:** «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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