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title: At last the peasant pinched the raven once more till he croaked, and… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: At last the peasant pinched the raven once more till he croaked, and said: ‘Fourthly, he says that there are some cakes under the bed.’ Who acts: last peasant, raven, cakes. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Little Peasant, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Little Peasant, sentence 49

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At last the peasant pinched the raven once more till he croaked, and said: ‘Fourthly, he says that there are some cakes under the bed.’

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**Who acts:** last peasant, raven, cakes · **What happens:** pinch, croak, say, be · **To what, where:** raven · **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 (last peasant, raven, cakes), 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:pg2591:28:49
# text = At last the peasant pinched the raven once more till he croaked, and said: ‘Fourthly, he says that there are some cakes under the bed.’
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	peasant	peasant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	pinched	pinch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	raven	raven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	9	advmod	_	_
9	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
10	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	croaked	croak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
17	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Fourthly	fourthly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	ccomp	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	24	expl	_	_
24	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	ccomp	_	_
25	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	26	det	_	_
26	cakes	cake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
27	under	under	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pinch** | past | the last peasant | the raven |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent raven=Theme |
| 2 | **croak** | past | raven |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | raven |  |  |  |  | fourthly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **does** | present | some cakes under the bed |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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