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title: ‘Bless me!’ cried the miller, and went there and found the wine. — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Bless me!’ cried the miller, and went there and found the wine. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Little Peasant, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Little Peasant, sentence 43

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‘Bless me!’ cried the miller, and went there and found the wine.

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**What happens:** bless, cry, go, find · **To what, where:** me, miller, wine

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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: 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:pg2591:28:43
# text = ‘Bless me!’ cried the miller, and went there and found the wine.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Bless	bless	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
3	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
6	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	miller	miller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
12	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bless** | infinitive |  | me |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past |  | the miller |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent miller=Topic |
| 3 | **go** | past |  |  |  | there |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **find** | past |  | the wine |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wine=Topic |

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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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