--- title: ‘O, you fool!’ said she, ‘then we must all four die of hunger, you m… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: ‘O, you fool!’ said she, ‘then we must all four die of hunger, you may as well plane the planks for our coffins,’ and she left him no peace until he consented. Who acts: you, dearth, we, man. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, dearth, we, man), 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:pg2591:20:9 # text = ‘O, you fool!’ said she, ‘then we must all four die of hunger, you may as well plane the planks for our coffins,’ and she left him no peace until he consented. 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 O o INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 fool fool VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ! ! PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 8 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 11 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 17 advmod _ _ 13 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 14 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 15 all all ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ _ 17 die die NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 ccomp _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 hunger hunger NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 22 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 23 as as ADV RB ExtPos=CCONJ 25 cc _ _ 24 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 23 fixed _ _ 25 plane plane NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 planks plank NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 conj _ _ 28 for for ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 coffins coffin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 34 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 left leave VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 36 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obj _ _ 37 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 38 det _ _ 38 peace peace NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 39 until until SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ _ 40 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 41 consented consent VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fool** | present | you | | | | | | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | dearth | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **die** | must | we | | | | then | of hunger | tree rules | | 4 | **plane** | may | you | | | | | for our coffins | tree rules | | 5 | **leave** | past | dearth | man | | | | | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Theme peace=Attribute | | 6 | **consent** | past | man | | | | | | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/20/8/) - next →: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/20/10/) - ↑ back to [Hansel and Gretel](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/20/)