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title: ‘Alas! dear sir,’ said she, ‘yonder lies the granite rock where all… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Alas! dear sir,’ said she, ‘yonder lies the granite rock where all the costly diamonds grow, and I want so much to go there, that whenever I think of it I cannot help being sorrowful, for who can reach it? only the birds and the flies--man cannot.’ Who acts: woman, I, costly diamonds. A sentence of
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Salad, sentence 27

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‘Alas! dear sir,’ said she, ‘yonder lies the granite rock where all the costly diamonds grow, and I want so much to go there, that whenever I think of it I cannot help being sorrowful, for who can reach it? only the birds and the flies--man cannot.’

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**Who acts:** woman, I, costly diamonds · **What happens:** say, lie, grow, want, go, think · **To what, where:** granite rock, much, rock · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Salad. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, I, costly diamonds), 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:pg2591:56:27
# text = ‘Alas! dear sir,’ said she, ‘yonder lies the granite rock where all the costly diamonds grow, and I want so much to go there, that whenever I think of it I cannot help being sorrowful, for who can reach it? only the birds and the flies--man cannot.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Alas	alas	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
4	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	sir	sir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	yonder	yonder	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	lies	lie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	advcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	granite	granite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	22	advmod	_	_
18	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	21	det:predet	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	costly	costly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	_
27	so	so	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	obj	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	acl	_	_
31	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	34	nsubj	_	_
34	whenever	whenever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	8	parataxis	_	_
35	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	think	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	advcl:relcl	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obl	_	_
39	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
40	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	42	advmod	_	_
42	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	parataxis	_	_
43	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	44	cop	_	_
44	sorrowful	sorrowful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
46	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	49	mark	_	_
47	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	49	nsubj	_	_
48	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	49	aux	_	_
49	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	conj	_	_
50	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	49	punct	_	_
52	only	only	ADV	RB	_	54	advmod	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	obl	_	_
55	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	flies	fly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	54	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	60	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	nsubj	_	_
60	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	54	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	60	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | woman |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **lie** | present | I *not said here* | the granite rock |  |  |  | yonder *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location rock=Theme |
| 3 | **grow** | present | all costly diamonds |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **want** | present | I | much |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot much=Theme |
| 5 | **go** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | there |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **think** *speech: other* | present | I |  |  |  |  | of rock | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **not** **help** | can | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **is** *not said to happen* | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | sorrowful *property* | tree rules |
| 9 | **reach** | can |  | rock |  |  |  | the birds and the flies *obl* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent it=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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