--- title: Some days after, the miller came to him and told him that the old as… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Some days after, the miller came to him and told him that the old ass was dead; ‘The other two,’ said he, ‘are alive and eat, but are so sorrowful that they cannot last long.’ Who acts: days, old ass, other two, stripes. 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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 (days, old ass, other two, stripes), 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:pg2591:56:65 # text = Some days after, the miller came to him and told him that the old ass was dead; ‘The other two,’ said he, ‘are alive and eat, but are so sorrowful that they cannot last long.’ 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 3 after after ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 miller miller NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obl _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 12 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 iobj _ _ 13 that that SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 ass ass NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 17 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 18 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 20 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 26 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ _ 26 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 27 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 31 alive alive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 parataxis _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 35 but but CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 36 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 cop _ _ 37 so so ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 38 sorrowful sorrowful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 conj _ _ 39 that that SCONJ IN _ 43 mark _ _ 40 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 41 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 42 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 43 advmod _ _ 43 last last VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 advcl _ _ 44 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 43 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 46 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | some days | | huntsman | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | some days *not said here* | | huntsman | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | | 3 | **is** | past | the old ass | | | | | dead *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the other two | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** | present | | | | | | alive *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **eat** | present | | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **is** | present | some days *not said here* | | | | | sorrowful *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **not** **last** | can | stripes *= stripe* | | | | | long *property* | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=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 64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/56/64/) - next →: [sentence 66](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/56/66/) - ↑ back to [The Salad](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/56/)