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title: The bean thanked him most prettily, but as the tailor used black thr… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The bean thanked him most prettily, but as the tailor used black thread, all beans since then have a black seam. Who acts: bean. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Straw, the Coal, and the Bean, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Straw, the Coal, and the Bean, sentence 22

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The bean thanked him most prettily, but as the tailor used black thread, all beans since then have a black seam.

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**Who acts:** bean · **What happens:** thank, use, have · **To what, where:** fortune, black thread, black seam

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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 (bean), 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:pg2591:7:22
# text = The bean thanked him most prettily, but as the tailor used black thread, all beans since then have a black seam.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bean	bean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	thanked	thank	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	6	advmod	_	_
6	prettily	prettily	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	tailor	tailor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
12	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
13	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	thread	thread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
17	beans	bean	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
18	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	_
20	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	seam	seam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **thank** *speech: thank* | past | the bean |  | fortune |  |  | prettily *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 2 | **use** | participle | the bean *not said here* | black thread and all beans |  |  |  | as the tailor | vn spend\_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent thread=Duration as tailor=Attribute |
| 3 | **have** | infinitive | the bean *not said here* | a black seam |  |  | then |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seam=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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