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title: "I should like to know what you want, you little grasshopper!" cried… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: "I should like to know what you want, you little grasshopper!" cried the woman very angrily, and she seized a shred of cloth to strike him; however, the tiny tailor popped under a thimble, and from it he peeped, putting out his tongue at the mistress. Who acts: woman, you, grasshopper. A sentence of
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Travels of Tom Thumb, sentence 13

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"I should like to know what you want, you little grasshopper!" cried the woman very angrily, and she seized a shred of cloth to strike him; however, the tiny tailor popped under a thimble, and from it he peeped, putting out his tongue at the mistress.

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**Who acts:** woman, you, grasshopper · **What happens:** like, know, want, grasshopper, cry, seize · **To what, where:** tiny tailor, shred, grasshopper, thimble, tongue · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Travels of Tom Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, you, grasshopper), 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:pg11027:22:13
# text = "I should like to know what you want, you little grasshopper!" cried the woman very angrily, and she seized a shred of cloth to strike him; however, the tiny tailor popped under a thimble, and from it he peeped, putting out his tongue at the mistress.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	ccomp	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	9	obj	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	grasshopper	grasshopper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
16	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	very	very	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	angrily	angrily	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	seized	seize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	shred	shred	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	strike	strike	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	_
31	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
33	however	however	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	tailor	tailor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
38	popped	pop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	37	acl	_	_
39	under	under	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	thimble	thimble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
44	from	from	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	obl	_	_
46	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
47	peeped	peep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
49	putting	put	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	47	advcl	_	_
50	out	out	ADP	RP	_	49	compound:prt	_	_
51	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	52	nmod:poss	_	_
52	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obj	_	_
53	at	at	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	mistress	mistress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **like** *in a quote* | should | the woman *= woman* |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **know** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | the woman *= woman* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **want** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme |
| 4 | **grasshopper** *in a quote* |  | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | the woman | the tiny tailor |  |  |  | angrily *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **seize** | past | woman | a shred of cloth |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shred=Theme |
| 7 | **strike** | to-infinitive | woman *not said here* | grasshopper |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Instrument |
| 8 | **pop** | participle |  | the tiny tailor *not said here* |  | a thimble |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under thimble=Location |
| 9 | **peep** | past | grasshopper |  |  |  |  | from thimble | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from it=Theme |
| 10 | **put out** | gerund | grasshopper *not said here* | grasshopper's tongue |  |  |  | at the mistress | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tongue=Theme at mistress=Destination |

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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:** «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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