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title: The miller said: ‘The Devil must go out,’ and opened the house-door;… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The miller said: ‘The Devil must go out,’ and opened the house-door; then the woman was forced to give up the keys, and the peasant unlocked the closet. Who acts: miller, Devil, woman, peasant. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Little Peasant, with its dependency tree and the p
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Little Peasant, sentence 57

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The miller said: ‘The Devil must go out,’ and opened the house-door; then the woman was forced to give up the keys, and the peasant unlocked the closet.

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**Who acts:** miller, Devil, woman, peasant · **What happens:** say, go out, open, force, give up, unlock · **To what, where:** house door, woman, keys, closet · **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 (miller, Devil, woman, peasant), 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:pg2591:28:57
# text = The miller said: ‘The Devil must go out,’ and opened the house-door; then the woman was forced to give up the keys, and the peasant unlocked the closet.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	miller	miller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
5	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Devil	Devil	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
10	out	out	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
20	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	advmod	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	forced	force	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	ccomp	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	up	up	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	keys	key	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	peasant	peasant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
34	unlocked	unlock	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	closet	closet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the miller |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **go out** | must | the Devil |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **open** | past | the miller *not said here* | the house door |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme |
| 4 | **force** | past · passive |  | the woman |  |  | then |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 5 | **give up** | to-infinitive | the woman *not said here* | the keys |  |  |  |  | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent key=Source |
| 6 | **unlock** | past | the peasant | the closet |  |  |  |  | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent closet=Patient |

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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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