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description: ‘Nay,’ said the maid, ‘if you are thirsty, get off yourself, and stoop down by the water and drink; I shall not be your waiting-maid any longer.’ Who acts: you, I. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Goose-girl, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Goose-girl, sentence 11

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‘Nay,’ said the maid, ‘if you are thirsty, get off yourself, and stoop down by the water and drink; I shall not be your waiting-maid any longer.’

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**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** say, be, get off, stoop down, not be · **To what, where:** maid, yourself, waiting maid · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Goose-girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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:pg2591:15:11
# text = ‘Nay,’ said the maid, ‘if you are thirsty, get off yourself, and stoop down by the water and drink; I shall not be your waiting-maid any longer.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Nay	nay	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	maid	maid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	thirsty	thirsty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	get	get	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
16	off	off	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	stoop	stoop	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
21	down	down	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
28	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
29	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
30	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	35	advmod	_	_
31	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	cop	_	_
32	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
33	waiting	waiting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	maid	maid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	ccomp	_	_
36	any	any	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	35	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	35	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  | the maid |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent maid=Topic |
| 2 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you |  |  |  |  | thirsty *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **get off** | infinitive |  | yourself |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer yourself=Stimulus |
| 4 | **stoop down** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | by the water and drink | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by water=Location |
| 5 | **not** **is a** | shall | I | your waiting maid |  |  |  | long *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:** «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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