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title: "Yellow counters! ah! why not? — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: "Yellow counters! ah! why not? A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Catherine and Frederick, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Catherine and Frederick, sentence 25

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"Yellow counters! ah! why not?

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This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Catherine and Frederick. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg11027:12:25
# text = "Yellow counters! ah! why not?
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	counters	counter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
5	ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
7	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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**Text:** «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (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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