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title: The world may very likely not always think of them as they think of… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The world may very likely not always think of them as they think of themselves, but what care they for the world? what can it know about the matter? Who acts: world, cards. 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 2

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The world may very likely not always think of them as they think of themselves, but what care they for the world? what can it know about the matter?

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**Who acts:** world, cards · **What happens:** not think, think, care, know · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (world, cards), 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:pg2591:3:2
# text = The world may very likely not always think of them as they think of themselves, but what care they for the world? what can it know about the matter?
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	likely	likely	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
7	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	8	advmod	_	_
8	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	_
11	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	think	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	19	nsubj	_	_
19	care	care	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
25	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	28	obj	_	_
26	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	parataxis	_	_
29	about	about	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **think** *speech: other* | may | the world |  |  |  |  | of cards *= card*; always, likely *property* | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | present | cards *= card* |  |  |  |  | of cards *= card* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **care** | present |  |  |  |  |  | for the world | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for world=Theme |
| 4 | **know** | can | world |  |  |  |  | about the matter | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |

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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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