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title: ‘Top off!’ cried the mouse, ‘that is a very odd and uncommon name, i… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Top off!’ cried the mouse, ‘that is a very odd and uncommon name, is it a usual one in your family?’ Who acts: ‘, name. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Cat and Mouse in Partnership, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Cat and Mouse in Partnership, sentence 17

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‘Top off!’ cried the mouse, ‘that is a very odd and uncommon name, is it a usual one in your family?’

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**Who acts:** ‘, name · **What happens:** cry, be · **To what, where:** mouse, odd name, usual one, family

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Cat and Mouse in Partnership. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (‘, name), 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:pg2591:14:17
# text = ‘Top off!’ cried the mouse, ‘that is a very odd and uncommon name, is it a usual one in your family?’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Top	top	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	_
3	off	off	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
6	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	‘	‘	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
14	very	very	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	odd	odd	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	uncommon	uncommon	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
18	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	usual	usual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past |  | the mouse and ‘ |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Topic |
| 2 | **is a** | present | ‘ | a odd name |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | name | a usual one |  | your family |  |  | 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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