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title: Then the miser began to beg and promise, and offered money for his l… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the miser began to beg and promise, and offered money for his liberty; but he did not come up to the musician’s price for some time, and he danced him along brisker and brisker, and the miser bid higher and higher, till at last he offered a round hundred of florins that he had in his purse, and
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Miser in the Bush, sentence 26

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Then the miser began to beg and promise, and offered money for his liberty; but he did not come up to the musician’s price for some time, and he danced him along brisker and brisker, and the miser bid higher and higher, till at last he offered a round hundred of florins that he had in his purse, and had just gained by cheating some poor fellow.

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**Who acts:** miser, sake · **What happens:** begin, beg, promise, offer, not come up, dance · **To what, where:** money, price, other, round hundred, last, florins

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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 (miser, sake), 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:pg2591:33:26
# text = Then the miser began to beg and promise, and offered money for his liberty; but he did not come up to the musician’s price for some time, and he danced him along brisker and brisker, and the miser bid higher and higher, till at last he offered a round hundred of florins that he had in his purse, and had just gained by cheating some poor fellow.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	miser	miser	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	beg	beg	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	promise	promise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	offered	offer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
12	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	liberty	liberty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
22	up	up	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	musician	musician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	’s	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	price	price	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	30	det	_	_
30	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	danced	dance	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
35	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	_
36	along	along	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
37	brisker	brisk	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	34	xcomp	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	brisker	brisk	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	37	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	miser	miser	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nsubj	_	_
44	bid	bid	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
45	higher	high	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	44	xcomp	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
47	higher	high	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	45	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
49	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	53	mark	_	_
50	at	at	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	last	last	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obl	_	_
52	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	nsubj	_	_
53	offered	offer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	conj	_	_
54	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
55	round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	amod	_	_
56	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	53	obj	_	_
57	of	of	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
58	florins	florin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	56	nmod	_	_
59	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	61	obj	_	_
60	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	61	nsubj	_	_
61	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	58	acl:relcl	_	_
62	in	in	ADP	IN	_	64	case	_	_
63	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	64	nmod:poss	_	_
64	purse	purse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	69	punct	_	_
66	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	69	cc	_	_
67	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	69	aux	_	_
68	just	just	ADV	RB	_	69	advmod	_	_
69	gained	gain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	parataxis	_	_
70	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	71	mark	_	_
71	cheating	cheat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	69	advcl	_	_
72	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	74	det	_	_
73	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	74	amod	_	_
74	fellow	fellow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	71	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
75	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | the miser |  |  |  | then |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **beg** *speech: request* | to-infinitive | the miser *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **promise** *speech: promise* | infinitive | the miser *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **offer** | past |  | money |  |  |  | for sake's liberty *goal* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent money=Theme for liberty=Goal |
| 5 | **not** **come up** | past · do-support | sake |  |  | the musician's price | time |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to price=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **dance** | past | sake | other |  |  |  | along, brisk *property* | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme |
| 7 | **bid** | past | the miser |  |  |  |  | high *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **offer** | past | sake | a round hundred of florins |  | last |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent hundred=Theme |
| 9 | **have** | past | sake | florins |  | sake's purse |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient |
| 10 | **gain** | past · perfect |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 11 | **cheat** | gerund |  | some poor fellow |  |  |  |  | vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fellow=Source |

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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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