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title: Ah, ah," said he, "that is surely my little cousin, who died two day… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Ah, ah," said he, "that is surely my little cousin, who died two days ago"; and beckoning with his finger he called, "Come, little cousin, come!" Who acts: man, that, little cousin. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 135

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Ah, ah," said he, "that is surely my little cousin, who died two days ago"; and beckoning with his finger he called, "Come, little cousin, come!"

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**Who acts:** man, that, little cousin · **What happens:** say, be, die, beckon, call, come · **To what, where:** little cousin, finger · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, that, little cousin), 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:pg11027:9:135
# text = Ah, ah," said he, "that is surely my little cousin, who died two days ago"; and beckoning with his finger he called, "Come, little cousin, come!"
1	Ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	1	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
12	surely	surely	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
13	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	cousin	cousin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
19	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl:unmarked	_	_
21	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	beckoning	beckon	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	finger	finger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	Come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	cousin	cousin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
38	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	33	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | man |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **is a** | present | that | my little cousin |  |  |  | surely *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **die** | past | my little cousin |  |  |  |  | ago *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **beckon** *in a quote* | gerund | man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with man's finger | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **call** *in a quote* | past | man | man's finger *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent finger=Recipient |
| 6 | **come** | infinitive |  | little cousin |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **come** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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