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title: Some men are born to good luck: all they do or try to do comes right… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Some men are born to good luck: all they do or try to do comes right--all that falls to them is so much gain--all their geese are swans--all their cards are trumps--toss them which way you will, they will always, like poor puss, alight upon their legs, and only move on so much the faster. Who acts: 
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hans in Luck, sentence 1

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Some men are born to good luck: all they do or try to do comes right--all that falls to them is so much gain--all their geese are swans--all their cards are trumps--toss them which way you will, they will always, like poor puss, alight upon their legs, and only move on so much the faster.

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**Who acts:** men, all, that, geese, cards · **What happens:** bear, do, try, come, fall, be · **To what, where:** men, much gain, swans, trumps, cards

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Hans in Luck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men, all, that, geese), 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:pg2591:3:1
# text = Some men are born to good luck: all they do or try to do comes right--all that falls to them is so much gain--all their geese are swans--all their cards are trumps--toss them which way you will, they will always, like poor puss, alight upon their legs, and only move on so much the faster.
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	luck	luck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	nsubj	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
17	right	right	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	21	det:predet	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
21	falls	fall	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	advcl	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
25	so	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	gain	gain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	31	det:predet	_	_
30	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	geese	goose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
32	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
33	swans	swan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	37	det:predet	_	_
36	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	cards	card	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nsubj	_	_
38	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
39	trumps	trump	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	toss	toss	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
42	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	obj	_	_
43	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	44	det	_	_
44	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl:unmarked	_	_
45	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
46	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	44	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
48	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
49	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
50	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	49	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
52	like	like	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	_
54	puss	puss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
56	alight	alight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	_
57	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
58	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	59	nmod:poss	_	_
59	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	56	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	63	punct	_	_
61	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	63	cc	_	_
62	only	only	ADV	RB	_	63	advmod	_	_
63	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
64	on	on	ADP	RP	_	63	compound:prt	_	_
65	so	so	ADV	RB	_	66	advmod	_	_
66	much	much	ADV	RB	_	68	advmod	_	_
67	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	68	det	_	_
68	faster	fast	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	63	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
69	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** | present · passive |  | some men |  |  |  | to good luck | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **do** | present | men *= man* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **try** | infinitive | men *= man* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **do** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | men *= man* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **come** | present | all |  |  |  |  | right *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **fall** | present | that |  | men *= man* |  |  |  | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to they=Theme |
| 7 | **is a** | present |  | much gain |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **is a** | present | men's geese | swans and trumps |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **is a** | present | men's cards | trumps |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 10 | **toss** | present | all *not said here* | cards *= card* |  |  |  | which way *obl:unmarked* | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 11 | **move on** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |

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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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