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title: ‘There, bird,’ said the shoemaker, ‘now sing me that song again.’ — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘There, bird,’ said the shoemaker, ‘now sing me that song again.’ Who acts: bird. 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 81

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‘There, bird,’ said the shoemaker, ‘now sing me that song again.’

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**Who acts:** bird · **What happens:** say, sing · **To what, where:** shoemaker, song, me · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (bird), 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:pg2591:38:81
# text = ‘There, bird,’ said the shoemaker, ‘now sing me that song again.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	7	expl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	shoemaker	shoemaker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
13	sing	sing	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
14	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	again	again	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | bird | the shoemaker |  | there |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent shoemaker=Topic |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | infinitive | bird *not said here* | that song | me |  | now; again |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary song=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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