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title: But the people said ‘No,’ unless he would bestow all his money upon… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But the people said ‘No,’ unless he would bestow all his money upon the rascals and buy their liberty. Who acts: people, man. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Bird, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Bird, sentence 66

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But the people said ‘No,’ unless he would bestow all his money upon the rascals and buy their liberty.

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**Who acts:** people, man · **What happens:** say, bestow, buy · **To what, where:** money, liberty · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Bird. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, man), 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:pg2591:2:66
# text = But the people said ‘No,’ unless he would bestow all his money upon the rascals and buy their liberty.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
9	unless	unless	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	bestow	bestow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
13	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	15	det:predet	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	rascals	rascal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	buy	buy	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	liberty	liberty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 people |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **bestow** *a condition, not said to happen* | would | man | man's money |  |  |  | upon the rascals | tree rules |
| 3 | **buy** | present | man *not said here* | people's liberty |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent liberty=Theme |

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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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