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title: ‘Alas, wife!’ said he, ‘cannot you be easy with being pope?’ — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Alas, wife!’ said he, ‘cannot you be easy with being pope?’ Who acts: wife, you. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Fisherman and His Wife, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 107

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‘Alas, wife!’ said he, ‘cannot you be easy with being pope?’

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**Who acts:** wife, you · **What happens:** say, not be, be · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Fisherman and His Wife. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, 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:pg2591:11:107
# text = ‘Alas, wife!’ said he, ‘cannot you be easy with being pope?’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Alas	alas	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	cop	_	_
15	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	advcl	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	cop	_	_
18	pope	pope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | wife |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **is** | can | you |  |  |  |  | easy *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | with pope | 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:** «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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