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title: Then the countryman rejoiced at his good luck, and said, ‘I like man… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Miser in the Bush, sentence 14

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Then the countryman rejoiced at his good luck, and said, ‘I like many things better than money: first, I will have a bow that will bring down everything I shoot at; secondly, a fiddle that will set everyone dancing that hears me play upon it; and thirdly, I should like that everyone should grant what I ask.’

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**Who acts:** countryman, I, bow, fiddle, everyone dancing, me · **What happens:** rejoice, say, like, have, bring down, shoot · **To what, where:** good luck, many things, bow, everything, everyone dancing, me · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Miser in the Bush. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (countryman, I, bow, fiddle), 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:pg2591:33:14
# text = Then the countryman rejoiced at his good luck, and said, ‘I like many things better than money: first, I will have a bow that will bring down everything I shoot at; secondly, a fiddle that will set everyone dancing that hears me play upon it; and thirdly, I should like that everyone should grant what I ask.’
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	countryman	countryman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	rejoiced	rejoice	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	luck	luck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	like	like	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
16	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	15	advmod	_	_
19	than	than	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
22	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	bow	bow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
30	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	acl:relcl	_	_
32	down	down	ADP	RP	_	31	compound:prt	_	_
33	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	31	obj	_	_
34	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	shoot	shoot	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	acl:relcl	_	_
36	at	at	ADP	IN	_	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
38	secondly	secondly	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	fiddle	fiddle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nsubj	_	_
42	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	44	nsubj	_	_
43	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
44	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	conj	_	_
45	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	46	compound	_	_
46	dancing	dancing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obj	_	_
47	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	48	nsubj	_	_
48	hears	hear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	46	acl:relcl	_	_
49	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	48	obj	_	_
50	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	48	xcomp	_	_
51	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	59	punct	_	_
54	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	59	cc	_	_
55	thirdly	thirdly	ADV	RB	_	59	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
57	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	59	nsubj	_	_
58	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	59	aux	_	_
59	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
60	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	63	mark	_	_
61	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	63	nsubj	_	_
62	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	63	aux	_	_
63	grant	grant	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	59	xcomp	_	_
64	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	66	obj	_	_
65	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	66	nsubj	_	_
66	ask	ask	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	63	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	59	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	59	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rejoice** | past | the countryman |  |  | countryman's good luck | then |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the countryman *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **like** | present | I | many things |  |  |  | well *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot thing=Theme |
| 4 | **have** | future | I | a bow |  |  |  | first *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bow=Patient |
| 5 | **bring down** | future | a bow | everything |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent everything=Theme |
| 6 | **shoot** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **set** | future | a fiddle | everyone dancing |  |  |  | secondly *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient dancing=Result |
| 8 | **hear** | present | everyone dancing | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **play** | infinitive | me *not said here* |  |  |  |  | upon fiddle | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 10 | **like** | should | I |  |  |  |  | thirdly *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 11 | **grant** *not said to happen* | should | everyone |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 12 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient |

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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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