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title: I’ll tell you what, I will make each of them a shirt, and a coat and… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I’ll tell you what, I will make each of them a shirt, and a coat and waistcoat, and a pair of pantaloons into the bargain; and do you make each of them a little pair of shoes.’ Who acts: I, you. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Elves and the Shoemaker, with its dependency tree
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Elves and the Shoemaker, sentence 19

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I’ll tell you what, I will make each of them a shirt, and a coat and waistcoat, and a pair of pantaloons into the bargain; and do you make each of them a little pair of shoes.’

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**Who acts:** I, you · **What happens:** tell, make · **To what, where:** you, each · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Elves and the Shoemaker. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you), 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:pg2591:37:19
# text = I’ll tell you what, I will make each of them a shirt, and a coat and waistcoat, and a pair of pantaloons into the bargain; and do you make each of them a little pair of shoes.’
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	’ll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	iobj	_	_
5	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
10	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nmod	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	shirt	shirt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	waistcoat	waistcoat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	pantaloons	pantaloon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
27	into	into	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	bargain	bargain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
32	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
33	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
35	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	34	obj	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nmod	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | future | I |  | you |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient what=Topic |
| 2 | **make** | future | I | each |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Product |
| 3 | **make** | present · do-support | you | each |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset each=Beneficiary pair=Product |

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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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