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title: Here is one that is but little the worse for wear: I would not ask m… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Here is one that is but little the worse for wear: I would not ask more than the value of your goose for it--will you buy?’ Who acts: I, you. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Hans in Luck, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hans in Luck, sentence 102

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Here is one that is but little the worse for wear: I would not ask more than the value of your goose for it--will you buy?’

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**Who acts:** I, you · **What happens:** be, not ask, buy, value · **To what, where:** one, more, goose

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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 (I, you), 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:pg2591:3:102
# text = Here is one that is but little the worse for wear: I would not ask more than the value of your goose for it--will you buy?’
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	acl:relcl	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	wear	wear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
17	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	obj	_	_
18	than	than	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	value	value	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	goose	goose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	buy	buy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | one |  | here |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | for wear; little *obl:unmarked*; bad *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **ask** *speech: ask* | would | I | more |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent more=Recipient |
| 4 | **buy** | future | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **value** |  |  | your goose for value |  |  |  |  | nom value «cognition 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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