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title: At last it came into the man’s head that he would not go on thus wit… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: At last it came into the man’s head that he would not go on thus without pay any longer; so he went to his master, and said, ‘I have worked hard for you a long time, I will trust to you to give me what I deserve to have for my trouble.’ Who acts: servant, man, I, my. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tal
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Miser in the Bush, sentence 2

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At last it came into the man’s head that he would not go on thus without pay any longer; so he went to his master, and said, ‘I have worked hard for you a long time, I will trust to you to give me what I deserve to have for my trouble.’

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**Who acts:** servant, man, I, my · **What happens:** come, not go on, go, say, work, trust · **To what, where:** last, master, you, 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 (servant, man, I, my), 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:pg2591:33:2
# text = At last it came into the man’s head that he would not go on thus without pay any longer; so he went to his master, and said, ‘I have worked hard for you a long time, I will trust to you to give me what I deserve to have for my trouble.’
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obl	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’s	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
15	on	on	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
17	without	without	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	pay	pay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	any	any	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
34	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	worked	work	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	45	advcl	_	_
36	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	35	advmod	_	_
37	for	for	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	35	obl	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
43	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
44	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	45	aux	_	_
45	trust	trust	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	ccomp	_	_
46	to	to	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	45	obl	_	_
48	to	to	PART	TO	_	49	mark	_	_
49	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	45	xcomp	_	_
50	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	49	iobj	_	_
51	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	49	obj	_	_
52	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	53	nsubj	_	_
53	deserve	deserve	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	51	acl:relcl	_	_
54	to	to	PART	TO	_	55	mark	_	_
55	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	53	xcomp	_	_
56	for	for	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
57	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	58	nmod:poss	_	_
58	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	45	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	45	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | servant |  |  | last |  | into the man's head | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into head=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **not** **go on** | would | man |  |  |  |  | without pay; long, thus *property* | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **go** | past | man |  |  | man's master |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to master=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | servant *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **work** | present · perfect | I |  |  |  | time | for you; hard *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for you=Beneficiary |
| 6 | **trust** | future | I |  | you |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 7 | **give** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  | me |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient what=Theme |
| 8 | **deserve** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **have** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for my trouble | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 10 | **trouble** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom trouble «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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