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title: As soon as she was alone that dwarf came in, and said, ‘What will yo… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: As soon as she was alone that dwarf came in, and said, ‘What will you give me to spin gold for you this third time?’ Who acts: daughter, dwarf, you. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Tom Thumb, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 129

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As soon as she was alone that dwarf came in, and said, ‘What will you give me to spin gold for you this third time?’

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**Who acts:** daughter, dwarf, you · **What happens:** be, come in, say, give, spin · **To what, where:** me, gold · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Tom Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter, dwarf, you), 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:pg2591:25:129
# text = As soon as she was alone that dwarf came in, and said, ‘What will you give me to spin gold for you this third time?’
1	As	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	alone	alone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	advcl	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	det	_	_
8	dwarf	dwarf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	in	in	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	19	obj	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
20	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	iobj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	spin	spin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
23	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	_
26	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	28	det	_	_
27	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	28	amod	_	_
28	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | daughter |  |  |  |  | alone *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **come in** | past | that dwarf |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | that dwarf *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **give** | future | you |  | me |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient what=Theme |
| 5 | **spin** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | gold |  |  | time | for you | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent gold=Result for you=Beneficiary |

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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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