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title: The student listened to all this and wondered much; at last he said,… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The student listened to all this and wondered much; at last he said, ‘Blessed be the day and hour when I found you; cannot you contrive to let me into the sack for a little while?’ Who acts: student, I, you. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Turnip, with its dependency tree and
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Turnip, sentence 31

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The student listened to all this and wondered much; at last he said, ‘Blessed be the day and hour when I found you; cannot you contrive to let me into the sack for a little while?’

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**Who acts:** student, I, you · **What happens:** listen, wonder, say, be, find, not contrive · **To what, where:** last, Blessed day, you, me, sack · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (student, 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:pg2591:39:31
# text = The student listened to all this and wondered much; at last he said, ‘Blessed be the day and hour when I found you; cannot you contrive to let me into the sack for a little while?’
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	student	student	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	listened	listen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	6	det:predet	_	_
6	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	wondered	wonder	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	much	much	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	last	last	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Blessed	blessed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	cop	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	ccomp	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
23	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	25	advmod	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
28	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
30	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	contrive	contrive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	xcomp	_	_
34	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	_
35	into	into	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	sack	sack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
38	for	for	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	31	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **listen** | past | the student |  |  |  |  | to this | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to this=Theme |
| 2 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | past | the student *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | student |  |  | last |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | infinitive |  | the Blessed day and hour |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **find** | past | I | you |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Topic |
| 6 | **not** **contrive** | can | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **let** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | me |  | the sack | while |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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