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title: One day he said to himself, ‘What shall I do with it? if I sell it,… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: One day he said to himself, ‘What shall I do with it? if I sell it, it will bring no more than another; and for eating, the little turnips are better than this; the best thing perhaps is to carry it and give it to the king as a mark of respect.’ Who acts: gardener, I, seed, little turnips. A sentenc
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Turnip, sentence 5

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One day he said to himself, ‘What shall I do with it? if I sell it, it will bring no more than another; and for eating, the little turnips are better than this; the best thing perhaps is to carry it and give it to the king as a mark of respect.’

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**Who acts:** gardener, I, seed, little turnips, best thing · **What happens:** say, do, sell, bring, eat, be · **To what, where:** gardener, seed, more, king, respect · **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 (gardener, I, seed, little turnips), 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:pg2591:39:5
# text = One day he said to himself, ‘What shall I do with it? if I sell it, it will bring no more than another; and for eating, the little turnips are better than this; the best thing perhaps is to carry it and give it to the king as a mark of respect.’
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	12	obj	_	_
10	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
16	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	sell	sell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
24	no	no	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	23	obj	_	_
26	than	than	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
30	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
31	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	37	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	turnips	turnip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nsubj	_	_
36	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
37	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	parataxis	_	_
38	than	than	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	43	amod	_	_
43	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nsubj	_	_
44	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
45	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	47	cop	_	_
46	to	to	PART	TO	_	47	mark	_	_
47	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
48	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	obj	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
50	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	conj	_	_
51	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	obj	_	_
52	to	to	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	_
55	as	as	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
56	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	mark	mark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	_
58	of	of	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
59	respect	respect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	47	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	47	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 | gardener |  | gardener |  | day |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **do** | shall | I |  |  |  |  | with seed | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 3 | **sell** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | I | seed |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 4 | **bring** | future | seed | more |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent more=Theme |
| 5 | **eat** | gerund | the little turnips *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is** | present | the little turnips |  |  |  |  | than this; good *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **is** | present | the best thing |  |  |  |  | carry, perhaps *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **give** | infinitive | the best thing *not said here* | seed | the king |  |  | as a mark of respect | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to king=Recipient |
| 9 | **mark** |  |  | respect |  |  |  |  | nom mark «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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