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title: ‘Now comes your turn,’ said he to the young tailor; ‘sew the eggs an… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Now comes your turn,’ said he to the young tailor; ‘sew the eggs and the young birds in them together again, so neatly that the shot shall have done them no harm.’ Who acts: father. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Four Clever Brothers, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Four Clever Brothers, sentence 31

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‘Now comes your turn,’ said he to the young tailor; ‘sew the eggs and the young birds in them together again, so neatly that the shot shall have done them no harm.’

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**Who acts:** father · **What happens:** come, say, sew, do · **To what, where:** turn, eggs, shot · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Four Clever Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father), 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:pg2591:43:31
# text = ‘Now comes your turn,’ said he to the young tailor; ‘sew the eggs and the young birds in them together again, so neatly that the shot shall have done them no harm.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	_
4	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	turn	turn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	tailor	tailor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	sew	sew	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nmod	_	_
25	together	together	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
26	again	again	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
28	so	so	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	neatly	neatly	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
30	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	shot	shot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj:pass	_	_
33	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
34	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	aux	_	_
35	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	parataxis	_	_
36	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	_
37	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	38	det	_	_
38	harm	harm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present |  | your turn |  |  | now |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location turn=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | father |  |  |  |  | to the young tailor | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to tailor=Experiencer clause=Topic |
| 3 | **sew** | infinitive |  | the eggs and the young birds in pieces |  |  | again | together *property* | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Product |
| 4 | **do** | shall · perfect · passive |  | the shot |  |  |  | neatly *property* | tree rules |

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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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