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title: ‘What nonsense,’ thought the princess, ‘this silly frog is talking! — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘What nonsense,’ thought the princess, ‘this silly frog is talking! Who acts: nonsense, silly frog. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Frog-prince, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Frog-prince, sentence 10

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‘What nonsense,’ thought the princess, ‘this silly frog is talking!

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**Who acts:** nonsense, silly frog · **What happens:** nonsense, think, talk · **To what, where:** princess

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Frog-prince. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nonsense, silly frog), 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:pg2591:13:10
# text = ‘What nonsense,’ thought the princess, ‘this silly frog is talking!
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
3	nonsense	nonsense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
12	silly	silly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	talking	talk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **nonsense** |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | nonsense | the princess |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot princess=Theme |
| 3 | **talk** | present · progressive | this silly frog |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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