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title: ‘Very well indeed,’ answered he; ‘one night is past, the two others… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Very well indeed,’ answered he; ‘one night is past, the two others will pass likewise.’ Who acts: two others. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 132

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‘Very well indeed,’ answered he; ‘one night is past, the two others will pass likewise.’

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**Who acts:** two others · **What happens:** answer, be, pass · **To what, where:** king · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two others), 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:pg2591:57:132
# text = ‘Very well indeed,’ answered he; ‘one night is past, the two others will pass likewise.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Very	very	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
4	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
7	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
10	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl:unmarked	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	past	past	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
19	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
21	likewise	likewise	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past |  |  | king |  |  | indeed *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  | night | past *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **pass** | future | the two others |  |  |  |  | likewise *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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