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title: ‘In milk I’m breaking bread so sweet, Will you be my guest, and eat?’ — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘In milk I’m breaking bread so sweet, Will you be my guest, and eat?’ Who acts: I, 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 6

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‘In milk I’m breaking bread so sweet, Will you be my guest, and eat?’

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**Who acts:** I, you · **What happens:** be, break, eat · **To what, where:** milk, bread, guest

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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 (I, 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:pg2591:55:6
# text = ‘In milk I’m breaking bread so sweet, Will you be my guest, and eat?’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	’m	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	breaking	break	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	xcomp	_	_
7	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	Will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	cop	_	_
14	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	guest	guest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	eat	eat	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | I |  |  | milk |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **break** | gerund | I *not said here* | bread |  |  |  | so sweet | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bread=Patient |
| 3 | **is a** | future | you | my guest |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **eat** | infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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