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title: ‘Yes, truly,’ replied the peasant, ‘I sank deep, deep down, until at… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Yes, truly,’ replied the peasant, ‘I sank deep, deep down, until at last I got to the bottom; I pushed the bottom out of the barrel, and crept out, and there were pretty meadows on which a number of lambs were feeding, and from thence I brought this flock away with me.’ Who acts: I, pretty meadows.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Little Peasant, sentence 85

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‘Yes, truly,’ replied the peasant, ‘I sank deep, deep down, until at last I got to the bottom; I pushed the bottom out of the barrel, and crept out, and there were pretty meadows on which a number of lambs were feeding, and from thence I brought this flock away with me.’

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**Who acts:** I, pretty meadows · **What happens:** reply, sink, get, push, creep out, be · **To what, where:** peasant, bottom, barrel, flock

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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 (I, pretty meadows), 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:pg2591:28:85
# text = ‘Yes, truly,’ replied the peasant, ‘I sank deep, deep down, until at last I got to the bottom; I pushed the bottom out of the barrel, and crept out, and there were pretty meadows on which a number of lambs were feeding, and from thence I brought this flock away with me.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	truly	truly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
7	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	peasant	peasant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	sank	sink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
14	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	deep	deep	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	down	down	ADV	RB	_	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	until	until	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	obl	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	pushed	push	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	out	out	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	barrel	barrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	crept	creep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
39	out	out	ADP	RP	_	38	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
42	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	43	expl	_	_
43	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	53	advcl	_	_
44	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	meadows	meadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	53	nsubj	_	_
46	on	on	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	53	obl	_	_
48	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nsubj	_	_
50	of	of	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	lambs	lamb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	nmod	_	_
52	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	53	aux	_	_
53	feeding	feed	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	38	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
55	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	59	cc	_	_
56	from	from	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
57	thence	thence	ADV	RB	_	59	obl	_	_
58	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	59	nsubj	_	_
59	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
60	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	61	det	_	_
61	flock	flock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	obj	_	_
62	away	away	ADV	RB	_	59	advmod	_	_
63	with	with	ADP	IN	_	64	case	_	_
64	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	59	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past |  | the peasant |  |  |  | truly *property* | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent peasant=Topic |
| 2 | **sink** | past | I |  |  |  | until last | deep *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **get** | past | I |  |  |  |  | to the bottom *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to bottom=Result |
| 4 | **push** | past | I | the bottom |  | the barrel |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent bottom=Theme out barrel=Trajectory |
| 5 | **creep out** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **be** | past | pretty meadows *not said here* |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **feed** | past · progressive | pretty meadows |  |  |  |  |  | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on which=Patient |
| 8 | **bring away** | past | I | this flock |  |  |  | with me; away *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent flock=Theme from thence=Initial\_Location |

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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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