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title: ‘Never mind,’ he said, ‘I have larger maps upstairs in the cupboard,… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Never mind,’ he said, ‘I have larger maps upstairs in the cupboard, we will look on those,’ but they searched in vain, for the castle was not marked even on these. Who acts: man, I, we, towns. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Raven, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Raven, sentence 61

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‘Never mind,’ he said, ‘I have larger maps upstairs in the cupboard, we will look on those,’ but they searched in vain, for the castle was not marked even on these.

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**Who acts:** man, I, we, towns · **What happens:** not mind, say, have, look, search, not mark · **To what, where:** larger maps, cupboard, vain, castle · **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, I, we, towns), 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:pg2591:47:61
# text = ‘Never mind,’ he said, ‘I have larger maps upstairs in the cupboard, we will look on those,’ but they searched in vain, for the castle was not marked even on these.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	mind	mind	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
12	larger	large	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	amod	_	_
13	maps	map	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	upstairs	upstairs	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	cupboard	cupboard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
26	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	searched	search	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	vain	vain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
32	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj:pass	_	_
35	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux:pass	_	_
36	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	37	advmod	_	_
37	marked	mark	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	conj	_	_
38	even	even	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
39	on	on	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	37	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **mind** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | man |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **have** | present | I | larger maps |  | the cupboard |  | upstairs *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent map=Patient |
| 4 | **look** | future | we |  |  |  |  | on those | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on that=Theme |
| 5 | **search** | past | towns *= town* |  |  | vain |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in vain=Location |
| 6 | **not** **mark** | past · passive |  | the castle |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme this=Attribute |

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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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