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title: How could it be otherwise with such a travelling companion as he had… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: How could it be otherwise with such a travelling companion as he had at last got? Who acts: pig. 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 54

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How could it be otherwise with such a travelling companion as he had at last got?

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**Who acts:** pig · **What happens:** be, get

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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 (pig), 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:pg2591:3:54
# text = How could it be otherwise with such a travelling companion as he had at last got?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	cop	_	_
5	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	10	det:predet	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	travelling	travelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	companion	companion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	parataxis	_	_
11	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	obl	_	_
16	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | infinitive | pig |  |  |  |  | with such travelling companion; otherwise *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **get** | could · perfect |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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