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title: ‘Ah!’ said the man, dolefully, ‘my wife wants to live in a stone cas… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Ah!’ said the man, dolefully, ‘my wife wants to live in a stone castle.’ Who acts: wife. 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 31

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‘Ah!’ said the man, dolefully, ‘my wife wants to live in a stone castle.’

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**Who acts:** wife · **What happens:** say, want, live · **To what, where:** man, stone castle · **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), 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:pg2591:11:31
# text = ‘Ah!’ said the man, dolefully, ‘my wife wants to live in a stone castle.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	dolefully	dolefully	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
11	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	wants	want	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	14	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 |  | the man |  |  |  | dolefully *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent man=Topic |
| 2 | **want** | present | my wife |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **live** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | my wife *not said here* |  |  | a stone castle |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in castle=Location |

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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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