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title: ‘Well,’ said the butcher, ‘I don’t like to say no, when one is asked… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Well,’ said the butcher, ‘I don’t like to say no, when one is asked to do a kind, neighbourly thing. Who acts: I, one. 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 50

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‘Well,’ said the butcher, ‘I don’t like to say no, when one is asked to do a kind, neighbourly thing.

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**Who acts:** I, one · **What happens:** say, not like, ask, do · **To what, where:** butcher, one, kind · **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 (I, one), 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:pg2591:3:50
# text = ‘Well,’ said the butcher, ‘I don’t like to say no, when one is asked to do a kind, neighbourly thing.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	butcher	butcher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	no	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	15	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
19	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	asked	ask	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	neighbourly	neighbourly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  | the butcher |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **like** | present · do-support | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present · passive |  | one |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 5 | **do** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | one *not said here* | a kind and neighbourly thing |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Eventuality |

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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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