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title: fie — Early Modern English dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «fie» in the Early Modern English dictionary: an exclamation that shows disgust or disapproval. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# fie

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**Who acts:** exclamation, villain, he, Fie · **What happens:** show, forsake, not pull, say, be · **To what, where:** disgust, Fie, en, boy · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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«fie» in the Early Modern English dictionary: its meaning for a pupil and its 3 examples, every sentence parsed by Mova itself — its syntax tree, a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, and its pragmatics clause by clause. The word in the dictionary, with its sense in the lessons: [fie in the Early Modern English dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/emode/w/fie.md).

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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an exclamation that shows disgust or disapproval.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:emode:fie:m1:1
# text = an exclamation that shows disgust or disapproval.
1	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	exclamation	exclamation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	disgust	disgust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	disapproval	disapproval	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | present | a exclamation | disgust or disapproval |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent disgust=Recipient |

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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.

## Example 1 {#x1}

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"Fie on the villain that forsook her!"

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From Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:emode:fie:x1:1
# text = "Fie on the villain that forsook her!"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Fie	Fie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	villain	villain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	forsook	forsake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **forsake** *in a quote* | past | the villain | Fie |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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His fis' stuck, en he can't pull loose.

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From Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:emode:fie:x2:1
# text = His fis' stuck, en he can't pull loose.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	fis	fi	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	stuck	stuck	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	pull	pull	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl:relcl	_	_
11	loose	loose	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **pull** | can | he | en *not said here* |  |  |  | loose *property* | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent en=Theme |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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“Fie!” said he. “How naughty a boy Cupid is!

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From Andersen's Fairy Tales.

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*Sentence 1:* “Fie!” said he.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:emode:fie:x3:1
# text = “Fie!” said he.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Fie	fie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Fie |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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*Sentence 2:* “How naughty a boy Cupid is!

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:emode:fie:x3:2
# text = “How naughty a boy Cupid is!
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
3	naughty	naughty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	Cupid	Cupid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | a boy |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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**Text:** the Early Modern English dictionary of Mova's schools (`world/data/dictionary-schools/`), written for Mova; its examples quote public-domain texts. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each meaning and example read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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