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title: Wife, go home, and give him a good dinner, and let him have my old c… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Wife, go home, and give him a good dinner, and let him have my old cushion to sleep on as long as he lives.’ Who acts: Wife, Sultan. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Old Sultan, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Old Sultan, sentence 12

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Wife, go home, and give him a good dinner, and let him have my old cushion to sleep on as long as he lives.’

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**Who acts:** Wife, Sultan · **What happens:** go, give, let, have, sleep on, live · **To what, where:** good dinner, Sultan, old cushion

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Old Sultan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wife, Sultan), 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:pg2591:6:12
# text = Wife, go home, and give him a good dinner, and let him have my old cushion to sleep on as long as he lives.’
1	Wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	home	home	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	iobj	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	cushion	cushion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	as	as	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	21	advmod	_	_
25	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	lives	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | infinitive | Wife |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **give** | infinitive | Wife *not said here* | a good dinner | Sultan |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient dinner=Theme |
| 3 | **let** | infinitive | Wife *not said here* | Sultan |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | infinitive | Sultan *not said here* | my old cushion |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cushion=Patient |
| 5 | **sleep on** | to-infinitive | Sultan *not said here* |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **live** | present | Sultan |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «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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