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title: At this same moment up came, with a flock of sheep, the very shepher… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: At this same moment up came, with a flock of sheep, the very shepherd whom the peasant knew had long been wishing to be mayor, so he cried with all his might: ‘No, I will not do it; if the whole world insists on it, I will not do it!’ Who acts: mayor, I, whole world. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tal
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Little Peasant, sentence 71

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At this same moment up came, with a flock of sheep, the very shepherd whom the peasant knew had long been wishing to be mayor, so he cried with all his might: ‘No, I will not do it; if the whole world insists on it, I will not do it!’

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**Who acts:** mayor, I, whole world · **What happens:** come, wish, be, cry, not do, insist · **To what, where:** shepherd, mayor, world · **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 (mayor, I, whole world), 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:pg2591:28:71
# text = At this same moment up came, with a flock of sheep, the very shepherd whom the peasant knew had long been wishing to be mayor, so he cried with all his might: ‘No, I will not do it; if the whole world insists on it, I will not do it!’
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
3	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	up	up	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	flock	flock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	very	very	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
17	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	obj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	peasant	peasant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
21	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
22	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	24	advmod	_	_
23	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	aux	_	_
24	wishing	wish	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	acl:relcl	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	cop	_	_
27	mayor	mayor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	so	so	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
30	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
32	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
33	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	35	det:predet	_	_
34	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	43	punct	_	_
37	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	43	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	43	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
40	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
41	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
42	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	43	advmod	_	_
43	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	conj	_	_
44	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
46	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	50	mark	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
48	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nsubj	_	_
50	insists	insist	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
51	on	on	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
54	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	57	nsubj	_	_
55	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	57	aux	_	_
56	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	57	advmod	_	_
57	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	50	ccomp	_	_
58	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	57	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	57	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	50	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past |  |  |  |  | moment | with a flock of sheep and the shepherd | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **wish** | past · perfect · progressive |  | the shepherd |  |  |  | long *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot whom=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | mayor |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | mayor |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **not** **do** | future | I | shepherd |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
| 6 | **insist** *speech: other* *a condition, not said to happen* | present | the whole world |  |  |  |  | on shepherd | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 7 | **not** **do** | future | I | world |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |

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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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