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title: Grant me my life; what do you want with such a slender little fellow… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Grant me my life; what do you want with such a slender little fellow as I? you would not feel me between your teeth. Who acts: you. 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 92

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Grant me my life; what do you want with such a slender little fellow as I? you would not feel me between your teeth.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** grant, want, not feel · **To what, where:** life, me, slender little fellow, teeth

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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 (you), 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:pg2591:60:92
# text = Grant me my life; what do you want with such a slender little fellow as I? you would not feel me between your teeth.
1	Grant	grant	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	9	obj	_	_
7	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	want	want	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	_
10	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
11	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	15	det:predet	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	slender	slender	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	fellow	fellow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	xcomp	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
23	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	between	between	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grant** | imperative | you *not said here* | my life | me |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent i=Goal life=Theme |
| 2 | **want** | present · do-support | you | such slender little fellow as I |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **feel** *not said to happen* | would | you | me |  | your teeth |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent i=Theme between tooth=Location |

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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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