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title: Answer," said the boy, "or make haste off; you have no business here… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Answer," said the boy, "or make haste off; you have no business here to-night." Who acts: Answer, you. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 23

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Answer," said the boy, "or make haste off; you have no business here to-night."

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**Who acts:** Answer, you · **What happens:** say, make off, have · **To what, where:** haste, business · **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 (Answer, you), 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:pg11027:9:23
# text = Answer," said the boy, "or make haste off; you have no business here to-night."
1	Answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
11	haste	haste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	off	off	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
16	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	17	det	_	_
17	business	business	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	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 | Answer |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **make off** | infinitive | Answer *not said here* | haste |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset haste=Product |
| 3 | **have** | present | you | no business |  | here |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent business=Patient |

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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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