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title: Wert thou but once here, my friend, though wouldst feel and own the… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Wert thou but once here, my friend, though wouldst feel and own the power of knowledge. Who acts: thou, though. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Turnip, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Turnip, sentence 30

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Wert thou but once here, my friend, though wouldst feel and own the power of knowledge.

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**Who acts:** thou, though · **What happens:** be, feel, own · **To what, where:** power

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Turnip. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thou, though), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg2591:1668`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2591:39:30
# text = Wert thou but once here, my friend, though wouldst feel and own the power of knowledge.
1	Wert	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Sub|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
2	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	but	but	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	5	advmod	_	_
5	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advcl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	vocative	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	though	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Typo=Yes	12	nsubj	_	_
11	wouldst	would	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	own	own	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | thou |  |  |  |  | here, once *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **feel** | would | though |  |  |  |  | my friend *vocative* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **own** | infinitive | though *not said here* | the power of knowledge |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot power=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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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