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title: Today I’ll brew, tomorrow bake; Merrily I’ll dance and sing, For nex… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Today I’ll brew, tomorrow bake; Merrily I’ll dance and sing, For next day will a stranger bring. Who acts: I, stranger. 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 143

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Today I’ll brew, tomorrow bake; Merrily I’ll dance and sing, For next day will a stranger bring.

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**Who acts:** I, stranger · **What happens:** brew, dance, sing, bring · **To what, where:** tomorrow bake

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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 (I, stranger), 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:pg2591:25:143
# text = Today I’ll brew, tomorrow bake; Merrily I’ll dance and sing, For next day will a stranger bring.
1	Today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’ll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	brew	brew	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	bake	bake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
9	Merrily	merrily	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	’ll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	dance	dance	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	sing	sing	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
16	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
17	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl:unmarked	_	_
19	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	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 | **brew** | future | I | tomorrow bake |  |  | today |  | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bake=Product |
| 2 | **dance** | future | I |  |  |  |  | merrily *property* | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **sing** *speech: express* | infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **bring** | future | a stranger |  |  |  | day |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent |

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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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