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title: ‘Bless me!’ said he, ‘all the world seems to have a design against m… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Bless me!’ said he, ‘all the world seems to have a design against my head this morning’: and so saying, he threw himself sulkily into his easy chair; but, oh dear! the needle ran into him; and this time the pain was not in his head. Who acts: landlord, world, needle, time. A sentence of «Grimms' Fa
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, 1. How They Went to the Mountains to Eat Nuts, sentence 18

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‘Bless me!’ said he, ‘all the world seems to have a design against my head this morning’: and so saying, he threw himself sulkily into his easy chair; but, oh dear! the needle ran into him; and this time the pain was not in his head.

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**Who acts:** landlord, world, needle, time · **What happens:** bless, say, seem, have, throw, run · **To what, where:** me, design, landlord, easy chair, head · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, 1. How They Went to the Mountains to Eat Nuts. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (landlord, world, needle, time), 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:pg2591:16:18
# text = ‘Bless me!’ said he, ‘all the world seems to have a design against my head this morning’: and so saying, he threw himself sulkily into his easy chair; but, oh dear! the needle ran into him; and this time the pain was not in his head.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Bless	bless	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
3	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	12	det:predet	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	seems	seem	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	design	design	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	against	against	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
21	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
22	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	so	so	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	ccomp	_	_
31	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	30	obj	_	_
32	sulkily	sulkily	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
33	into	into	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
35	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	chair	chair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	41	punct	_	_
38	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	41	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
40	oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	41	discourse	_	_
41	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	41	punct	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	needle	needle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nsubj	_	_
45	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	parataxis	_	_
46	into	into	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	58	punct	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
50	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	51	det	_	_
51	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	nsubj	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	nsubj	_	_
54	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	58	cop	_	_
55	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	58	advmod	_	_
56	in	in	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
57	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	58	nmod:poss	_	_
58	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bless** | infinitive |  | me |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | landlord |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **seem** | present | all world |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 4 | **have** | to-infinitive | all world *not said here* | a design |  |  | morning | against my head | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent design=Patient |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | landlord *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **throw** | past | landlord | landlord |  |  |  | into landlord's easy chair *result*; sulkily *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer himself=Theme into chair=Result |
| 7 | **run** | past | the needle |  |  |  |  | into landlord | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into he=Result |
| 8 | **not** **is** | past | this time |  |  | landlord's head |  |  | 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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