--- title: "A witch has told you! a witch has told you!" shrieked the little Ma… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics description: "A witch has told you! a witch has told you!" shrieked the little Man, and stamped his right foot so hard in the ground with rage that he could not draw it out again. Who acts: man. 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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 (man), 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:pg11027:24:126 # text = "A witch has told you! a witch has told you!" shrieked the little Man, and stamped his right foot so hard in the ground with rage that he could not draw it out again. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 witch witch NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 told tell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 advcl _ _ 6 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ! ! PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 witch witch NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj:pass _ _ 10 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 told tell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 advcl _ _ 12 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 11 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ! ! PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 " " PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ 15 shrieked shriek VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 Man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 stamped stamp VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 22 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 23 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 foot foot NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 25 so so ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 hard hard ADV RB Degree=Pos 21 advmod _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 30 with with ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 rage rage NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 32 that that SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 33 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 34 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 35 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 36 advmod _ _ 36 draw draw VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 advcl _ _ 37 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 obj _ _ 38 out out ADP RP _ 36 compound:prt _ _ 39 again again ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive | | a witch | you | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient you=Topic | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive | | a witch | you | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient you=Topic | | 3 | **shriek** | past | | the little Man | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location man=Theme | | 4 | **stamp** | past | | man's right foot | | the ground with rage | | hard *property* | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent foot=Theme in ground=Destination | | 5 | **not** **draw out** | could | man | rage | | | again | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | 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 125](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/24/125/) - next →: [sentence 127](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/24/127/) - ↑ back to [The Three Little Men in the Wood](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/24/)