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title: ‘Oh,’ said the ass, ‘by all means go with us to the great city; you… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Oh,’ said the ass, ‘by all means go with us to the great city; you are a good night singer, and may make your fortune as a musician.’ Who acts: you. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Travelling Musicians, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Travelling Musicians, sentence 13

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‘Oh,’ said the ass, ‘by all means go with us to the great city; you are a good night singer, and may make your fortune as a musician.’

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** say, mean, go, be, make · **To what, where:** ass, great city, good night singer, fortune · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Travelling Musicians. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg2591:5:13
# text = ‘Oh,’ said the ass, ‘by all means go with us to the great city; you are a good night singer, and may make your fortune as a musician.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	ass	ass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	obl	_	_
12	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
13	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	ccomp	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
22	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	singer	singer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
31	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	fortune	fortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	as	as	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	musician	musician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	30	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  | the ass |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  | by all | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **go** | infinitive |  |  |  | the great city |  | with us | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to city=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **is a** | present | you | a good night singer |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **make** | may |  | your fortune |  |  |  | as a musician | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fortune=Product |

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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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