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title: Now he had a good deal of gold in the house: so he said to Catherine… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Now he had a good deal of gold in the house: so he said to Catherine, ‘What pretty yellow buttons these are! Who acts: husband, yellow buttons. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Frederick and Catherine, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Frederick and Catherine, sentence 30

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Now he had a good deal of gold in the house: so he said to Catherine, ‘What pretty yellow buttons these are!

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**Who acts:** husband, yellow buttons · **What happens:** have, say, be, deal · **To what, where:** good deal, Catherine, gold · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Frederick and Catherine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband, yellow buttons), 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:pg2591:29:30
# text = Now he had a good deal of gold in the house: so he said to Catherine, ‘What pretty yellow buttons these are!
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	deal	deal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Catherine	Catherine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	15	ccomp	_	_
21	pretty	pretty	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	buttons	button	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
24	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	20	nsubj	_	_
25	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | husband | a good deal of gold in the house |  |  | now |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deal=Patient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | husband |  | Catherine |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to catherine=Recipient |
| 3 | **is a** | present | yellow buttons |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **deal** |  |  | gold in the house |  |  |  |  | nom deal «act transitive»: of=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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