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title: Then Heinel said, ‘Father, give yourself very little trouble about t… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Heinel said, ‘Father, give yourself very little trouble about that; I shall be too much for the little man.’ Who acts: Heinel, Father, I. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The King of the Golden Mountain, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The King of the Golden Mountain, sentence 17

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Then Heinel said, ‘Father, give yourself very little trouble about that; I shall be too much for the little man.’

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**Who acts:** Heinel, Father, I · **What happens:** say, give, be · **To what, where:** little trouble, yourself · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The King of the Golden Mountain. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Heinel, Father, I), 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:pg2591:51:17
# text = Then Heinel said, ‘Father, give yourself very little trouble about that; I shall be too much for the little man.’
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Heinel	Heinel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	‘	‘	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Father	Father	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	8	iobj	_	_
10	very	very	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
13	about	about	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
17	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	cop	_	_
19	too	too	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	ccomp	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Heinel |  |  |  | then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **give** | present | Father *not said here* | little trouble | yourself |  |  | about that | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Recipient trouble=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | shall | I |  |  |  |  | for the little man; much *property* | tree rules |

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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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