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title: "Oh, you simpleton!" said she, "then we must all four die of hunger;… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: "Oh, you simpleton!" said she, "then we must all four die of hunger; you had better plane the coffins for us." Who acts: you, simpleton. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Hansel and Grethel, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Hansel and Grethel, sentence 7

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"Oh, you simpleton!" said she, "then we must all four die of hunger; you had better plane the coffins for us."

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**Who acts:** you, simpleton · **What happens:** simpleton, say, die, have · **To what, where:** better plane · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Hansel and Grethel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, simpleton), 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:pg11027:8:7
# text = "Oh, you simpleton!" said she, "then we must all four die of hunger; you had better plane the coffins for us."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	simpleton	simpleton	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
13	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
14	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
15	all	all	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	die	die	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	ccomp	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	hunger	hunger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
23	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	24	amod	_	_
24	plane	plane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	coffins	coffin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **simpleton** *in a quote* |  | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: express* | past | simpleton |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **die** *in a quote* | must | simpleton |  |  |  | then | of hunger | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** *in a quote* | past | you | better plane |  |  |  | for us | tree rules |

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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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