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title: ‘Nay,’ answered the bird, ‘I do not sing twice for nothing; you must… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Nay,’ answered the bird, ‘I do not sing twice for nothing; you must give me something.’ Who acts: I, you. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Juniper-tree, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Juniper-tree, sentence 78

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‘Nay,’ answered the bird, ‘I do not sing twice for nothing; you must give me something.’

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**Who acts:** I, you · **What happens:** answer, not sing, give · **To what, where:** bird, something, me

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Juniper-tree. 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:pg2591:38:78
# text = ‘Nay,’ answered the bird, ‘I do not sing twice for nothing; you must give me something.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Nay	nay	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
5	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	csubj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	sing	sing	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
14	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	13	advmod	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
21	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	iobj	_	_
22	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past |  |  | the bird |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent bird=Eventuality |
| 2 | **not** **sing** *speech: express* | present · do-support | I |  |  |  |  | for nothing; twice *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S\_INF»: agent=Agent for nothing=Recipient |
| 3 | **give** | must | you | something | me |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient something=Theme |

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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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