--- title: ‘It’s not worth the trouble,’ said the third; ‘let him live, he’ll g… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: ‘It’s not worth the trouble,’ said the third; ‘let him live, he’ll go climbing higher up the mountain, and some cloud will come rolling and carry him away.’ Who acts: worm, sleep, cloud. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (worm, sleep, cloud), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2591:56:36 # text = ‘It’s not worth the trouble,’ said the third; ‘let him live, he’ll go climbing higher up the mountain, and some cloud will come rolling and carry him away.’ 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ’s be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 worth worth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 trouble trouble NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 10 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 third third ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 14 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 16 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ’ll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 conj _ _ 22 climbing climb VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 21 xcomp _ _ 23 higher high ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 22 advmod _ _ 24 up up ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 mountain mountain NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 29 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 30 det _ _ 30 cloud cloud NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 31 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 32 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 conj _ _ 33 rolling rolling ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 carry carry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 conj _ _ 36 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obj _ _ 37 away away ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 38 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is** | present | worm | | | | | worth *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | | the third | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent third=Topic | | 3 | **let** | infinitive | | sleep | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **live** | infinitive | sleep *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **go** | future | sleep | | | | | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **climb** | gerund | sleep *not said here* | | | the mountain | | high *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme up mountain=Trajectory | | 7 | **come** | future | some cloud | | | | | rolling *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **carry away** | infinitive | some cloud *not said here* | sleep | | | | away *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/56/35/) - next →: [sentence 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/56/37/) - ↑ back to [The Salad](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/56/)