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title: Caw! well I ween Mortal lips have this way been.’ — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Caw! well I ween Mortal lips have this way been.’ Who acts: I, Mortal lips. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Seven Ravens, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Seven Ravens, sentence 29

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Caw! well I ween Mortal lips have this way been.’

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**Who acts:** I, Mortal lips · **What happens:** ween, have · **To what, where:** Caw, way

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Seven Ravens. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Mortal lips), 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:pg2591:53:29
# text = Caw! well I ween Mortal lips have this way been.’
1	Caw	caw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	ween	ween	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Mortal	mortal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
9	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ween** | present | I | Caw |  |  |  | well *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | present | Mortal lips | this way |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=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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