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title: When he had doctored people awhile, but not long, a rich and great l… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When he had doctored people awhile, but not long, a rich and great lord had some money stolen. Who acts: peasant, rich lord. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Doctor Knowall, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Doctor Knowall, sentence 8

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When he had doctored people awhile, but not long, a rich and great lord had some money stolen.

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**Who acts:** peasant, rich lord · **What happens:** doctor, have, steal · **To what, where:** people, money

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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 (peasant, rich lord), 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:pg2591:52:8
# text = When he had doctored people awhile, but not long, a rich and great lord had some money stolen.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	doctored	doctor	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	awhile	awhile	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
13	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
16	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
18	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	det	_	_
19	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	stolen	steal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **doctor** | past · perfect | peasant |  | people |  |  | awhile *property* | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **have** | past | a rich lord | some money |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient |
| 3 | **steal** | participle |  | some money *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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