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title: The shepherd said: ‘If nothing more than that is needful in order to… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The shepherd said: ‘If nothing more than that is needful in order to be mayor, I would get into the barrel at once.’ Who acts: shepherd, nothing, I. 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 75

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The shepherd said: ‘If nothing more than that is needful in order to be mayor, I would get into the barrel at once.’

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**Who acts:** shepherd, nothing, I · **What happens:** say, be, get · **To what, where:** mayor, barrel · **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 (shepherd, nothing, I), 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:pg2591:28:75
# text = The shepherd said: ‘If nothing more than that is needful in order to be mayor, I would get into the barrel at once.’
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	shepherd	shepherd	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	:	_	12	punct	_	_
5	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	12	nsubj	_	_
8	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	amod	_	_
9	than	than	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	obl	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	needful	needful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	ccomp	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	17	case	_	_
14	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	fixed	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	cop	_	_
17	mayor	mayor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
22	into	into	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	barrel	barrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## 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 shepherd |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | nothing |  |  |  |  | needful *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | mayor |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **get** | would | I |  |  | the barrel |  |  | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into barrel=Destination |

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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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