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title: There was a certain village wherein no one lived but really rich pea… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: There was a certain village wherein no one lived but really rich peasants, and just one poor one, whom they called the little peasant. Who acts: certain village, one, peasants. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Little Peasant, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Little Peasant, sentence 1

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There was a certain village wherein no one lived but really rich peasants, and just one poor one, whom they called the little peasant.

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**Who acts:** certain village, one, peasants · **What happens:** be, live, call · **To what, where:** one poor one · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Little Peasant. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (certain village, one, peasants), 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:pg2591:28:1
# text = There was a certain village wherein no one lived but really rich peasants, and just one poor one, whom they called the little peasant.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
6	wherein	wherein	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
7	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	8	det	_	_
8	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	really	really	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	peasants	peasant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	just	just	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
17	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
18	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	23	obj	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	peasant	peasant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | a certain village |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **live** | past | no one |  |  |  |  | wherein *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **call** | past | peasants *= peasant* | one poor one |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent whom=Theme peasant=Result |

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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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