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title: The youngest, who was in the clock-case, was the only one he did not… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The youngest, who was in the clock-case, was the only one he did not find. Who acts: only one, youngest clock case, wolf. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids, sentence 26

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The youngest, who was in the clock-case, was the only one he did not find.

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**Who acts:** only one, youngest clock case, wolf · **What happens:** be, not find · **To what, where:** youngest clock case, only one

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (only one, youngest clock case, wolf), 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:pg2591:35:26
# text = The youngest, who was in the clock-case, was the only one he did not find.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
2	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	clock	clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the only one |  |  | the youngest clock case |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past | the youngest clock case | the only one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **find** | past · do-support | wolf | the only one *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic |

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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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