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title: "What are you gazing at?" cried the dwarf, at the same time becoming… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: "What are you gazing at?" cried the dwarf, at the same time becoming red with rage; "and what are you standing there for, making ugly faces?" Who acts: you, dwarf, same time. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Snow-white and Rose-red, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 98

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"What are you gazing at?" cried the dwarf, at the same time becoming red with rage; "and what are you standing there for, making ugly faces?"

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**Who acts:** you, dwarf, same time · **What happens:** gaze, cry, become, stand, make · **To what, where:** ugly faces · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, dwarf, same time), 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:pg11027:23:98
# text = "What are you gazing at?" cried the dwarf, at the same time becoming red with rage; "and what are you standing there for, making ugly faces?"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	gazing	gaze	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advmod	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
9	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	dwarf	dwarf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
17	becoming	become	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	acl	_	_
18	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	rage	rage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	27	obj	_	_
25	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
28	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	27	advmod	_	_
29	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	advcl	_	_
32	ugly	ugly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	faces	face	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gaze** *in a quote* | present · progressive | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | the dwarf |  |  |  | time |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **become** | gerund | the same time *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with rage; red *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **stand** *in a quote* | present · progressive | you |  |  | there |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |
| 5 | **make** *in a quote* | gerund | you *not said here* | ugly faces |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset face=Product |

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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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