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title: Those fellows up there have not opened their mouths, and were so stu… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Those fellows up there have not opened their mouths, and were so stupid that they let the old rags on their bodies be burnt." Who acts: mouths, old rags. 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 65

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Those fellows up there have not opened their mouths, and were so stupid that they let the old rags on their bodies be burnt."

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**Who acts:** mouths, old rags · **What happens:** not open, be, let, burnt · **To what, where:** fellows, old rags, bodies

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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 (mouths, old rags), 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:pg11027:9:65
# text = Those fellows up there have not opened their mouths, and were so stupid that they let the old rags on their bodies be burnt."
1	Those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	fellows	fellow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	up	up	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
5	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	opened	open	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	mouths	mouth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	stupid	stupid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	let	let	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	rags	rag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	bodies	body	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	burnt	burnt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **open** | present · perfect · passive |  | that fellows |  |  |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme mouth=Destination |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | stupid *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **let** | past | mouths *= mouth* | the old rags |  | mouths's bodies |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **burnt** | infinitive · passive | the old rags *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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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