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title: And all the good people they danced and they sung, And feasted and f… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And all the good people they danced and they sung, And feasted and frolick’d I can’t tell how long. Who acts: good people, people, frolick ’d. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Water of Life, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Water of Life, sentence 87

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And all the good people they danced and they sung, And feasted and frolick’d I can’t tell how long.

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**Who acts:** good people, people, frolick ’d · **What happens:** dance, sung, feast, not tell · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Water of Life. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (good people, people, frolick ’d), 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:pg2591:49:87
# text = And all the good people they danced and they sung, And feasted and frolick’d I can’t tell how long.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	5	det:predet	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	danced	dance	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	sung	sung	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	feasted	feast	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
15	frolick	frolick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’d	'd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
21	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	22	advmod	_	_
22	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dance** | past | all good people |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **sung** | present | people |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **feast** | past | all good people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* | can | frolick ’d |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «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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