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description: The miller would have liked much to know the fifth, but the little peasant said: ‘First, we will quickly eat the four things, for the fifth is something bad.’ Who acts: little peasant, we, fifth. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Little Peasant, with its dependency tree and the
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Little Peasant, sentence 52

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The miller would have liked much to know the fifth, but the little peasant said: ‘First, we will quickly eat the four things, for the fifth is something bad.’

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**Who acts:** little peasant, we, fifth · **What happens:** like, know, say, eat, be · **To what, where:** miller, fifth, four things · **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 (little peasant, we, fifth), 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:pg2591:28:52
# text = The miller would have liked much to know the fifth, but the little peasant said: ‘First, we will quickly eat the four things, for the fifth is something bad.’
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	miller	miller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux	_	_
5	liked	like	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	much	much	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	fifth	fifth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	peasant	peasant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
18	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	First	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	fifth	fifth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
32	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
33	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	24	parataxis	_	_
34	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	33	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **like** | would · perfect · passive |  | the miller |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **know** | to-infinitive |  | the fifth |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer fifth=Stimulus |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the little peasant |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **eat** | future | we | the four things |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient |
| 5 | **is** | present | the fifth |  |  |  |  | for something | tree rules |

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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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