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title: ‘You have thriven well in the world hitherto,’ said the grinder, ‘no… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘You have thriven well in the world hitherto,’ said the grinder, ‘now if you could find money in your pocket whenever you put your hand in it, your fortune would be made.’ Who acts: You. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Hans in Luck, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hans in Luck, sentence 98

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‘You have thriven well in the world hitherto,’ said the grinder, ‘now if you could find money in your pocket whenever you put your hand in it, your fortune would be made.’

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**Who acts:** You · **What happens:** thriven, say, find, put, make · **To what, where:** world, grinder, money, pocket, hand, fortune · **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 (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:pg2591:3:98
# text = ‘You have thriven well in the world hitherto,’ said the grinder, ‘now if you could find money in your pocket whenever you put your hand in it, your fortune would be made.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	thriven	thriven	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	ccomp	_	_
5	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	hitherto	hitherto	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	grinder	grinder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	_
18	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
22	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	whenever	whenever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	28	advmod	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	put	put	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
29	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
34	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	fortune	fortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj:pass	_	_
36	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
37	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	aux:pass	_	_
38	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **thriven** | present · perfect | You |  |  | the world |  | hitherto, well *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  | the grinder |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **find** *a condition, not said to happen* | could | you | money |  | your pocket | now |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent money=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 4 | **put** | present | you | your hand |  | pocket |  | whenever *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme in it=Destination |
| 5 | **make** | would · passive |  | your fortune |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |

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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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