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title: Influenced by those remarks, the bird next morning refused to bring… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Influenced by those remarks, the bird next morning refused to bring in the wood, telling the others that he had been their servant long enough, and had been a fool into the bargain, and that it was now time to make a change, and to try some other way of arranging the work. Who acts: Influenced next 
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Mouse, the Bird, and the Sausage, sentence 10

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Influenced by those remarks, the bird next morning refused to bring in the wood, telling the others that he had been their servant long enough, and had been a fool into the bargain, and that it was now time to make a change, and to try some other way of arranging the work.

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**Who acts:** Influenced next morning, bird, bargain, other way · **What happens:** influence, refuse, not bring, tell, be, make · **To what, where:** wood, others, servant, fool, bargain, time · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Mouse, the Bird, and the Sausage. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Influenced next morning, bird, bargain, other way), 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:pg2591:21:10
# text = Influenced by those remarks, the bird next morning refused to bring in the wood, telling the others that he had been their servant long enough, and had been a fool into the bargain, and that it was now time to make a change, and to try some other way of arranging the work.
1	Influenced	influence	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	amod	_	_
2	by	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	remarks	remark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
8	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	refused	refuse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
23	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	cop	_	_
24	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	xcomp	_	_
26	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	25	advmod	_	_
27	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
30	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
31	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	33	cop	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	fool	fool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
34	into	into	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	bargain	bargain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
39	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
40	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
41	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	cop	_	_
42	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	43	advmod	_	_
43	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
44	to	to	PART	TO	_	45	mark	_	_
45	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	acl	_	_
46	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	change	change	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
50	to	to	PART	TO	_	51	mark	_	_
51	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	45	conj	_	_
52	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	54	det	_	_
53	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	_
54	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obj	_	_
55	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	56	mark	_	_
56	arranging	arrange	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	54	acl	_	_
57	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
58	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **influence** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by that remarks and the bird | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **refuse** | past | Influenced next morning |  |  |  |  |  | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **bring** | to-infinitive | Influenced next morning *not said here* |  |  | the wood |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | Influenced next morning *not said here* | the others |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent other=Recipient |
| 5 | **is a** *not said to happen* | past · perfect | bird | mouse's servant |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **is a** | past · perfect | Influenced next morning *not said here* | a fool |  | the bargain |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **is a** | past | bargain | time |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **make** | to-infinitive | Influenced next morning *not said here* | a change |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset change=Product |
| 9 | **try** | to-infinitive | Influenced next morning *not said here* | some other way |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Eventuality |
| 10 | **arrange** | gerund | some other way *not said here* | the work |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Product |

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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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