--- title: ‘Aha!’ she cried mockingly, ‘you would fetch your dearest, but the b… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: ‘Aha!’ she cried mockingly, ‘you would fetch your dearest, but the beautiful bird sits no longer singing in the nest; the cat has got it, and will scratch out your eyes as well. Who acts: RAPUNZEL, you, beautiful bird, cat. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, 3. How Partlet Died and --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/18/77/) [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/) / 77 # Grimms' Fairy Tales, 3. How Partlet Died and Was Buried, and How Chanticleer Died of Grief, sentence 77 ‘Aha!’ she cried mockingly, ‘you would fetch your dearest, but the beautiful bird sits no longer singing in the nest; the cat has got it, and will scratch out your eyes as well. **Who acts:** RAPUNZEL, you, beautiful bird, cat · **What happens:** cry, fetch, sit, sing, get, scratch out · **To what, where:** dearest, nest, bird, eyes 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 (RAPUNZEL, you, beautiful bird, cat), 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:pg2591:18:77 # text = ‘Aha!’ she cried mockingly, ‘you would fetch your dearest, but the beautiful bird sits no longer singing in the nest; the cat has got it, and will scratch out your eyes as well. 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Aha aha INTJ UH _ 6 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ! ! PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 5 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 mockingly mockingly ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 11 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 fetch fetch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 13 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 dearest dearest NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 but but CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 sits sit VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 21 no no ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 longer long ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 23 advmod _ _ 23 singing sing VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 advcl _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 nest nest NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ; ; PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 30 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 got get VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 20 advcl _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 35 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 36 scratch scratch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 conj _ _ 37 out out ADP RP _ 36 compound:prt _ _ 38 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obj _ _ 40 as as ADV RB ExtPos=ADV 36 advmod _ _ 41 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 40 fixed _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | RAPUNZEL | | | | | mockingly *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **fetch** | would | you | your dearest | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dearest=Theme | | 3 | **sit** | present | the beautiful bird | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund | the beautiful bird *not said here* | | | the nest | | long *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in nest=Location | | 5 | **get** | present · perfect | the cat | bird | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | | 6 | **scratch out** | future | the beautiful bird *not said here* | your eyes | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | 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 76](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/18/76/) - next →: [sentence 78](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/18/78/) - ↑ back to [3. 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