--- title: ‘Very well,’ answered she, ‘I’ll carry the door; but I’ll not carry… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: ‘Very well,’ answered she, ‘I’ll carry the door; but I’ll not carry the nuts and vinegar bottle also--that would be too much of a load; so if you please, I’ll fasten them to the door.’ Who acts: I, that, you. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, that, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2591:29:67 # text = ‘Very well,’ answered she, ‘I’ll carry the door; but I’ll not carry the nuts and vinegar bottle also--that would be too much of a load; so if you please, I’ll fasten them to the door.’ 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Very very ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 6 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 6 answered answer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ’ll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 carry carry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 16 but but CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 17 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ’ll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 19 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 20 advmod _ _ 20 carry carry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 nuts nut NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 vinegar vinegar NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 bottle bottle NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ _ 26 also also ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 -- -- PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 32 nsubj _ _ 29 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 30 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 32 cop _ _ 31 too too ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 conj _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 load load NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 36 ; ; PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 37 so so ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 38 if if SCONJ IN _ 44 mark _ _ 39 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 40 please please INTJ UH _ 44 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 42 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 ’ll 'll ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 44 fasten fasten VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 45 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 obj _ _ 46 to to ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 50 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | | | wife | | | well *property* | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality | | 2 | **carry** | future | I | the door | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Theme | | 3 | **not** **carry** | future | I | the nuts and vinegar bottle | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nut=Theme | | 4 | **is** | would | that | | | | | of a load; much *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **fasten** | present | you | nuts *= nut* | | | | to the door; 'll *property* | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent they=Patient to door=Co-Patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 66](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/29/66/) - next →: [sentence 68](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/29/68/) - ↑ back to [Frederick and Catherine](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/29/)