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title: For many a fine fat mouse he brought, Yet of his wife he never thoug… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: For many a fine fat mouse he brought, Yet of his wife he never thought, But ate up every one he caught.’ Who acts: mouse, many. 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 26

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For many a fine fat mouse he brought, Yet of his wife he never thought, But ate up every one he caught.’

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**Who acts:** mouse, many · **What happens:** bring, not think, eat up, catch · **To what, where:** fine fat mouse, one · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (mouse, many), 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:pg2591:55:26
# text = For many a fine fat mouse he brought, Yet of his wife he never thought, But ate up every one he caught.’
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	nsubj	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	fat	fat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	Yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	ccomp	_	_
20	up	up	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	det	_	_
22	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **bring** | past | mouse | a fine fat mouse *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument mouse=Destination |
| 2 | **not** **think** *speech: other* | past | many |  |  |  |  | of mouse's wife | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **eat up** | past |  | every one |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient |
| 4 | **catch** | past | mouse | every one *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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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