--- title: At last one took the other aside, and said, ‘That little urchin will… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: At last one took the other aside, and said, ‘That little urchin will make our fortune, if we can get him, and carry him about from town to town as a show; we must buy him.’ Who acts: last one, little urchin, we. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (last one, little urchin, we), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2591:25:23 # text = At last one took the other aside, and said, ‘That little urchin will make our fortune, if we can get him, and carry him about from town to town as a show; we must buy him.’ 1 At at ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 obj _ _ 7 aside aside ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 12 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 That that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 15 det _ _ 14 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 urchin urchin NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 16 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 ccomp _ _ 18 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 fortune fortune NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 if if SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 22 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 23 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 parataxis _ _ 25 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 carry carry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 conj _ _ 29 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 about about ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 31 from from ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 33 to to ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod _ _ 35 as as ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 show show NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 ; ; PUNCT : _ 41 punct _ _ 39 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 40 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 41 buy buy VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ _ 42 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 41 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 41 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | past | last one | the other | | | | aside *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | last one *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **make** | future | that little urchin | our fortune | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fortune=Product | | 4 | **get** *a condition, not said to happen* | can | we | urchin | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | | 5 | **carry** | infinitive | we *not said here* | urchin | | town to town | | as a show; about *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent he=Theme from town=Initial\_Location | | 6 | **buy** | must | we | | urchin | | | | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/25/22/) - next →: [sentence 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/25/24/) - ↑ back to [Tom Thumb](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/25/)