--- title: Holloa! who asked you?" exclaimed the Tailor, driving away the uninv… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics description: Holloa! who asked you?" exclaimed the Tailor, driving away the uninvited visitors; but the flies, not understanding his words, would not be driven off, and came back in greater numbers than before. Who acts: Holloa, flies. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Holloa, flies), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg11027:13:11 # text = Holloa! who asked you?" exclaimed the Tailor, driving away the uninvited visitors; but the flies, not understanding his words, would not be driven off, and came back in greater numbers than before. 1 Holloa holloa NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ! ! PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ 3 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 4 nsubj _ _ 4 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ? ? PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ 8 exclaimed exclaim VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 Tailor tailor NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 driving drive VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 advcl _ _ 13 away away ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 uninvited uninvited ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 visitors visitor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 18 but but CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 flies fly NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj:pass _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 23 advmod _ _ 23 understanding understand VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 20 acl _ _ 24 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 28 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 30 advmod _ _ 29 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 30 aux:pass _ _ 30 driven drive VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 ccomp _ _ 31 off off ADP RP _ 30 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 35 back back ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 36 in in ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 greater great ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 38 amod _ _ 38 numbers number NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obl _ _ 39 than than ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 before before ADV RB _ 38 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Holloa | | you | | | | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **exclaim** *speech: express* *in a quote* | past | Holloa *not said here* | the Tailor | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent tailor=Topic | | 3 | **drive away** *in a quote* | gerund | Holloa *not said here* | the uninvited visitors | | | | away *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent visitor=Theme | | 4 | **not** **understand** *in a quote* | gerund | the flies *not said here* | Holloa's words | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus | | 5 | **not** **drive off** *in a quote* | would · passive | | the flies | | | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 6 | **come back** *in a quote* | past | Holloa *not said here* | | | greater numbers | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in number=Location | | 7 | **word** *in a quote* | | Holloa | | | | | | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/13/10/) - next →: [sentence 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/13/12/) - ↑ back to [The Valiant Little Tailor](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/13/)