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title: The little bit of food that we people get is immediately burnt up wi… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The little bit of food that we people get is immediately burnt up with heavy logs; we do not swallow so much as you coarse, greedy folk. Who acts: we. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Snow-white and Rose-red, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 51

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The little bit of food that we people get is immediately burnt up with heavy logs; we do not swallow so much as you coarse, greedy folk.

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**Who acts:** we · **What happens:** get, burnt up, not swallow · **To what, where:** food, little bit, coarse greedy folk

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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:pg2591:60:51
# text = The little bit of food that we people get is immediately burnt up with heavy logs; we do not swallow so much as you coarse, greedy folk.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	obj	_	_
7	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod:unmarked	_	_
9	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
11	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	burnt	burnt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	logs	log	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
18	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	swallow	swallow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	much	much	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
24	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	coarse	coarse	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
28	greedy	greedy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | present | we | food |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus |
| 2 | **burnt up** | present · passive |  | the little bit of food |  |  |  | with heavy logs; immediately *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **swallow** | present · do-support | we | coarse greedy folk |  |  |  |  | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent folk=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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