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title: ‘In the first place buy yourself an A B C book of the kind which has… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Doctor Knowall, sentence 6

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‘In the first place buy yourself an A B C book of the kind which has a cock on the frontispiece; in the second, turn your cart and your two oxen into money, and get yourself some clothes, and whatsoever else pertains to medicine; thirdly, have a sign painted for yourself with the words: “I am Doctor Knowall,” and have that nailed up above your house-door.’

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**Who acts:** you, kind, heart · **What happens:** buy, have, turn, get, pertain, paint · **To what, where:** B C book, yourself, first place, cock, frontispiece, cart · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Doctor Knowall. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, kind, heart), 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:pg2591:52:6
# text = ‘In the first place buy yourself an A B C book of the kind which has a cock on the frontispiece; in the second, turn your cart and your two oxen into money, and get yourself some clothes, and whatsoever else pertains to medicine; thirdly, have a sign painted for yourself with the words: “I am Doctor Knowall,” and have that nailed up above your house-door.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	In	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	amod	_	_
5	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
6	buy	buy	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	6	iobj	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
9	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	B	B	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
11	C	c	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	cock	cock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	frontispiece	frontispiece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	turn	turn	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
29	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	cart	cart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
32	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
33	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	34	nummod	_	_
34	oxen	ox	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	conj	_	_
35	into	into	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	get	get	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
40	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	39	obj	_	_
41	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	42	det	_	_
42	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	39	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
45	whatsoever	whatsoever	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
46	else	else	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
47	pertains	pertain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	advcl	_	_
48	to	to	PART	TO	_	49	mark	_	_
49	medicine	medicine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
51	thirdly	thirdly	ADV	RB	_	53	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
53	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
54	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obj	_	_
56	painted	paint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	55	acl	_	_
57	for	for	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
58	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	56	obl	_	_
59	with	with	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
60	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
61	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	56	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	66	punct	_	_
63	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	66	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	66	nsubj	_	_
65	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	66	cop	_	_
66	Doctor	Doctor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	_
67	Knowall	Knowall	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	66	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
69	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
70	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	71	cc	_	_
71	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
72	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	73	nsubj:pass	_	_
73	nailed	nail	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	71	xcomp	_	_
74	up	up	ADP	RP	_	73	compound:prt	_	_
75	above	above	ADP	IN	_	79	case	_	_
76	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	79	nmod:poss	_	_
77	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	79	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
78	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	77	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
79	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	73	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
80	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
81	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **buy** | imperative | you *not said here* | a B C book of the kind | yourself | the first place |  | in the second | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | present | the kind | a cock |  | the frontispiece |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cock=Patient |
| 3 | **turn** | infinitive | you *not said here* | your cart and your two oxen |  | money |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent cart=Theme into money=Trajectory |
| 4 | **get** | infinitive |  | yourself |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Beneficiary clothes=Theme |
| 5 | **pertain** | present |  | medicine |  |  |  | whatsoever *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **have** | present |  | a sign |  |  |  | thirdly *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sign=Patient |
| 7 | **paint** | participle |  | a sign *not said here* |  |  |  | for yourself; with the words | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with word=Theme |
| 8 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | heart | Doctor |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **have** | present | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 10 | **nail up** | participle · passive |  | that |  | your house door |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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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