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title: It would have been all over with her, likewise, if, by good fortune,… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It would have been all over with her, likewise, if, by good fortune, a tailor who was travelling in search of work, had not sat down to rest by the brook. Who acts: event, tailor. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Straw, the Coal, and the Bean, with its dependency tree and the 
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Straw, the Coal, and the Bean, sentence 20

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It would have been all over with her, likewise, if, by good fortune, a tailor who was travelling in search of work, had not sat down to rest by the brook.

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**Who acts:** event, tailor · **What happens:** be, travel, not sit down, rest, search · **To what, where:** search, good fortune, work

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Straw, the Coal, and the Bean. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (event, tailor), 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:pg2591:7:20
# text = It would have been all over with her, likewise, if, by good fortune, a tailor who was travelling in search of work, had not sat down to rest by the brook.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux	_	_
4	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	cop	_	_
5	all	all	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	over	over	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	likewise	likewise	ADV	RB	_	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
12	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	fortune	fortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	tailor	tailor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
20	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	travelling	travel	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	acl:relcl	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	search	search	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
28	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
30	sat	sit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
31	down	down	ADP	RP	_	30	compound:prt	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	advcl	_	_
34	by	by	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	brook	brook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	30	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would · perfect | event |  |  |  |  | with straw; all, over *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **travel** | past · progressive | a tailor |  |  | search of work |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in search=Trajectory |
| 3 | **not** **sit down** | past · perfect · passive |  | good fortune |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **rest** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | by the brook | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by brook=Location |
| 5 | **search** |  |  | work |  |  |  |  | nom search «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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