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title: ‘Why, what should make me down-hearted?’ said he; ‘I am sound in hea… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Why, what should make me down-hearted?’ said he; ‘I am sound in health and rich in purse, what should I care for? Who acts: me, fellow, I. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Miser in the Bush, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Miser in the Bush, sentence 8

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‘Why, what should make me down-hearted?’ said he; ‘I am sound in health and rich in purse, what should I care for?

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**Who acts:** me, fellow, I · **What happens:** make down, heart, say, be, care · **To what, where:** me, sound, health, purse · **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 (me, fellow, I), 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:pg2591:33:8
# text = ‘Why, what should make me down-hearted?’ said he; ‘I am sound in health and rich in purse, what should I care for?
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
5	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
7	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	down	down	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	hearted	heart	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
13	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
16	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	ccomp	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	health	health	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	purse	purse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	30	obj	_	_
28	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	care	care	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	parataxis	_	_
31	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make down** | should |  | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **heart** | participle | me *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | fellow |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **is a** | present | I | sound |  | health |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** |  | I *not said here* |  |  | purse |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **care** | should | I | sound |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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