--- title: Then the old cook scolded and said: ‘You simpletons, you should have… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Then the old cook scolded and said: ‘You simpletons, you should have cut the rose-bush in two, and have broken off the rose and brought it home with you; go, and do it at once.’ Who acts: old cook, You. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, 3. How Partlet Died and Was Buried, and How C --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/18/113/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Grimms' Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/) / [3. How Partlet Died and Was Buried, an…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/18/) / 113 # Grimms' Fairy Tales, 3. How Partlet Died and Was Buried, and How Chanticleer Died of Grief, sentence 113 Then the old cook scolded and said: ‘You simpletons, you should have cut the rose-bush in two, and have broken off the rose and brought it home with you; go, and do it at once.’ **Who acts:** old cook, You · **What happens:** scold, say, simpleton, cut, break off, bring · **To what, where:** you, two, rose, bush · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, 3. How Partlet Died and Was Buried, and How Chanticleer Died of Grief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old cook, You), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2591:18:113 # text = Then the old cook scolded and said: ‘You simpletons, you should have cut the rose-bush in two, and have broken off the rose and brought it home with you; go, and do it at once.’ 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 5 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 cook cook NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 scolded scold VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 9 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 simpletons simpleton NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj:pass _ _ 14 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 15 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 16 aux _ _ 16 cut cut VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 conj _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 18 rose rose NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 19 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 bush bush NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 broken break VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 11 parataxis _ _ 27 off off ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 rose rose NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 brought bring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ _ 33 home home ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 34 with with ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 ; ; PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 37 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 conj _ _ 41 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 obj _ _ 42 at at ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 45 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **scold** | past | the old cook | | | | then | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the old cook *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **simpleton** | | You | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **cut** | should · perfect · passive | | you | | two | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary bush=Product | | 5 | **break off** | present · perfect | | the rose | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rose=Patient | | 6 | **bring** | past | | bush | | | | with you; home *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 7 | **go** | infinitive | the old cook *not said here* | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **do** | infinitive | the old cook *not said here* | bush | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 112](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/18/112/) - next →: [sentence 114](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/18/114/) - ↑ back to [3. 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