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title: First there will be a capital roast; then the fat will find me in go… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: First there will be a capital roast; then the fat will find me in goose-grease for six months; and then there are all the beautiful white feathers. Who acts: you, fat, beautiful white feathers. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Hans in Luck, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hans in Luck, sentence 79

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First there will be a capital roast; then the fat will find me in goose-grease for six months; and then there are all the beautiful white feathers.

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**Who acts:** you, fat, beautiful white feathers · **What happens:** be, find · **To what, where:** capital roast, me, goose grease

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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 (you, fat, beautiful white feathers), 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:pg2591:3:79
# text = First there will be a capital roast; then the fat will find me in goose-grease for six months; and then there are all the beautiful white feathers.
1	First	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	7	advmod	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	capital	capital	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	roast	roast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
9	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	fat	fat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
14	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	goose	goose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	grease	grease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	26	advmod	_	_
25	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	26	expl	_	_
26	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
27	all	all	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
29	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
30	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | imperative | you *not said here* | a capital roast |  |  |  | first *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **find** | future | the fat | me |  | goose grease for six months | then |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Topic |
| 3 | **does** | present | the beautiful white feathers |  |  | there | then |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP 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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