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title: He answered, ‘I may not and will not either eat or drink.’ — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He answered, ‘I may not and will not either eat or drink.’ Who acts: man. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Raven, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Raven, sentence 32

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He answered, ‘I may not and will not either eat or drink.’

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** answer, not eat, drink · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Raven. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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:pg2591:47:32
# text = He answered, ‘I may not and will not either eat or drink.’
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
4	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
11	either	either	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	12	advmod	_	_
12	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | man |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **eat** | may · future |  |  |  |  |  | either *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **drink** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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