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title: My dead cousin was here, and a bearded man came and showed me a grea… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: My dead cousin was here, and a bearded man came and showed me a great deal of money down below, but no one told me what it was to shudder.’ Who acts: dead cousin, bearded man, one, cousin. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Wa
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 202

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My dead cousin was here, and a bearded man came and showed me a great deal of money down below, but no one told me what it was to shudder.’

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**Who acts:** dead cousin, bearded man, one, cousin · **What happens:** be, come, show, tell, deal · **To what, where:** great deal, me, shudder, money · **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 (dead cousin, bearded man, one, cousin), 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:pg2591:57:202
# text = My dead cousin was here, and a bearded man came and showed me a great deal of money down below, but no one told me what it was to shudder.’
1	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	cousin	cousin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	bearded	bearded	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
14	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	iobj	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	deal	deal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	down	down	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	below	below	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	25	det	_	_
25	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
27	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	iobj	_	_
28	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	26	obj	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	shudder	shudder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | My dead cousin |  |  |  |  | here *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | past | a bearded man |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **show** | past | a bearded man *not said here* | a great deal of money | me |  |  | below *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient deal=Topic |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | no one |  | me |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient what=Topic |
| 5 | **is a** | past | cousin | shudder |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **deal** |  |  | money |  |  |  |  | nom deal «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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