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title: ‘Sweep me the room as clean as you can, Up with the window, fling ou… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Sweep me the room as clean as you can, Up with the window, fling out my old man! Who acts: you. 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 25

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‘Sweep me the room as clean as you can, Up with the window, fling out my old man!

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** sweep, fl out · **To what, where:** me, old man

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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 (you), 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:pg2591:55:25
# text = ‘Sweep me the room as clean as you can, Up with the window, fling out my old man!
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Sweep	sweep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	obl	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	Up	up	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	fling	fl	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
18	out	out	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sweep** | imperative | you *not said here* | me |  |  |  | as clean; with the window | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent i=Theme room=Destination |
| 2 | **fl out** | gerund | you *not said here* | my old man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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