--- title: The child is quite black, only it has white paws, but with that exce… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: The child is quite black, only it has white paws, but with that exception, it has not a single white hair on its whole body; this only happens once every few years, you will let me go, won’t you?’ Who acts: child, this, you, me. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (child, this, you, me), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2591:14:31 # text = The child is quite black, only it has white paws, but with that exception, it has not a single white hair on its whole body; this only happens once every few years, you will let me go, won’t you?’ 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 quite quite ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 only only ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 10 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 paws paw NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 13 but but CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 14 with with ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 16 det _ _ 16 exception exception NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 20 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 24 advmod _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 22 single single ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 23 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 25 on on ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 27 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ; ; PUNCT : _ 32 punct _ _ 30 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 32 nsubj _ _ 31 only only ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 happens happen VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 33 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 32 advmod _ _ 34 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 36 det _ _ 35 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 38 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 39 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 40 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ _ 41 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 40 obj _ _ 42 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 40 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 44 wo will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 45 n’t not PART RB Polarity=Neg 46 advmod _ _ 46 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 44 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 47 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 48 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | the child | | | | | black *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **have** | present | child | white paws | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paw=Patient | | 3 | **have** | present | child | a single white hair | | child's whole body | | with that exception | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient | | 4 | **happen** | present | this | | | | year | once *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **let** | future | you | me | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **go** | infinitive | me *not said here* | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/14/30/) - next →: [sentence 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/14/32/) - ↑ back to [Cat and Mouse in Partnership](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/14/)