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title: ‘If she’s in want of a husband now, Then will it please her to step… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘If she’s in want of a husband now, Then will it please her to step below?’ Who acts: want. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Second Story, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Second Story, sentence 12

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‘If she’s in want of a husband now, Then will it please her to step below?’

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**Who acts:** want · **What happens:** please, step, want · **To what, where:** Mrs, husband

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Second Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (want), 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:pg2591:55:12
# text = ‘If she’s in want of a husband now, Then will it please her to step below?’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’s	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	want	want	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
12	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
13	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	please	please	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
16	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	step	step	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
19	below	below	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **please** | future | want | Mrs |  |  | then |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer |
| 2 | **step** | to-infinitive | want *not said here* |  |  |  |  | below *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **want** |  |  | a husband |  |  |  |  | nom want «state transitive»: of=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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