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title: Then he was told about Doctor Knowall who lived in such and such a v… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he was told about Doctor Knowall who lived in such and such a village, and must know what had become of the money. 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 9

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Then he was told about Doctor Knowall who lived in such and such a village, and must know what had become of the money.

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**What happens:** tell, live, know, become · **To what, where:** peasant, such village · **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: 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:pg2591:52:9
# text = Then he was told about Doctor Knowall who lived in such and such a village, and must know what had become of the money.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	about	about	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	Doctor	Doctor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:desc	_	_
7	Knowall	Knowall	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
11	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	15	det:predet	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	know	know	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
20	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	22	nsubj	_	_
21	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	become	become	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	ccomp	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · passive |  | peasant |  |  | then | about Knowall  Doctor | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **live** | past |  |  |  | such such village |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in village=Location |
| 3 | **know** | must |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **become** | past · perfect |  |  |  |  |  | of the money | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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