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title: ‘All good things go in threes,’ said she, ‘I am asked to stand godmo… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘All good things go in threes,’ said she, ‘I am asked to stand godmother again. Who acts: good things, mouth, I. 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 30

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‘All good things go in threes,’ said she, ‘I am asked to stand godmother again.

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**Who acts:** good things, mouth, I · **What happens:** go, say, ask, stand · **To what, where:** threes, I, godmother · **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 (good things, mouth, I), 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:pg2591:14:30
# text = ‘All good things go in threes,’ said she, ‘I am asked to stand godmother again.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
3	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	threes	three	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	asked	ask	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	godmother	godmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	again	again	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present | all good things |  |  | threes |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in three=Location |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | mouth |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present · passive |  | I |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **stand** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | godmother |  |  | again |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer godmother=Stimulus |

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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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