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title: ‘Why, I see a table spread with all kinds of good things, and robber… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Why, I see a table spread with all kinds of good things, and robbers sitting round it making merry.’ Who acts: I, robbers, table. 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 31

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‘Why, I see a table spread with all kinds of good things, and robbers sitting round it making merry.’

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**Who acts:** I, robbers, table · **What happens:** see, spread, sit, make · **To what, where:** table, robbers

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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 (I, robbers, table), 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:pg2591:5:31
# text = ‘Why, I see a table spread with all kinds of good things, and robbers sitting round it making merry.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	spread	spread	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
11	kinds	kind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	robbers	robber	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
18	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	acl	_	_
19	round	round	ADP	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
22	merry	merry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present | I | a table |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer table=Stimulus |
| 2 | **spread** | participle |  | robbers |  |  |  | with all kinds of good things | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **sit** | gerund | robbers *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **make** | gerund | table |  |  |  |  | merry *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material |

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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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