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title: Come, take these two wicked girls, they are tender morsels for you,… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Come, take these two wicked girls, they are tender morsels for you, fat as young quails; for mercy’s sake eat them!’ Who acts: you, these, girls, young. 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 93

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Come, take these two wicked girls, they are tender morsels for you, fat as young quails; for mercy’s sake eat them!’

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**Who acts:** you, these, girls, young · **What happens:** come, take, girl, be, quail, eat · **To what, where:** tender morsels, girls

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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, these, girls, young), 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:pg2591:60:93
# text = Come, take these two wicked girls, they are tender morsels for you, fat as young quails; for mercy’s sake eat them!’
1	Come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
4	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	7	nsubj	_	_
5	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
6	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	tender	tender	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	morsels	morsel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	fat	fat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
17	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	nsubj	_	_
19	quails	quail	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	mercy	mercy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	’s	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	sake	sake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
25	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
26	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **take** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **girl** |  | these |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | present | girls *= girl* | tender morsels |  |  |  | for you | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** |  | girls *= girl* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **quail** | present | young |  |  |  |  |  | vn flinch-40.5 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 7 | **eat** | present |  | girls *= girl* |  |  |  | for mercy's sake | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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