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title: But the sparrow answered, ‘Not wretch enough yet!’ and perched on th… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But the sparrow answered, ‘Not wretch enough yet!’ and perched on the head of the second horse, and pecked at him too. Who acts: sparrow. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Dog and the Sparrow, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Dog and the Sparrow, sentence 36

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But the sparrow answered, ‘Not wretch enough yet!’ and perched on the head of the second horse, and pecked at him too.

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**Who acts:** sparrow · **What happens:** answer, perch, peck · **To what, where:** wretch, head

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Dog and the Sparrow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sparrow), 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:pg2591:9:36
# text = But the sparrow answered, ‘Not wretch enough yet!’ and perched on the head of the second horse, and pecked at him too.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	sparrow	sparrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	wretch	wretch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	perched	perch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	21	amod	_	_
21	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	pecked	peck	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
25	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	_
27	too	too	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | the sparrow | wretch |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent wretch=Eventuality |
| 2 | **perch** | participle | the sparrow *not said here* |  |  | the head of the second horse |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on head=Location |
| 3 | **peck** | participle | the sparrow *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at harm | vn chew-39.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at he=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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