--- title: ‘How lonely it is, wife,’ said he, as he puffed out a long curl of s… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: ‘How lonely it is, wife,’ said he, as he puffed out a long curl of smoke, ‘for you and me to sit here by ourselves, without any children to play about and amuse us while other people seem so happy and merry with their children!’ Who acts: pipe, woodman, you, children. 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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 (pipe, woodman, you, children), 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:pg2591:25:2 # text = ‘How lonely it is, wife,’ said he, as he puffed out a long curl of smoke, ‘for you and me to sit here by ourselves, without any children to play about and amuse us while other people seem so happy and merry with their children!’ 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 advmod _ _ 3 lonely lonely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 ccomp _ _ 4 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 10 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 as as SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 14 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 puffed puff VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 16 out out ADP RP _ 15 compound:prt _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 curl curl NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 smoke smoke NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 23 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 for for SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 25 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 25 conj _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 sit sit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 conj _ _ 30 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 29 advmod _ _ 31 by by ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 ourselves ourselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 34 without without SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 35 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 36 det _ _ 36 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 nsubj _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 play play VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 parataxis _ _ 39 about about ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 41 amuse amuse VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 conj _ _ 42 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 41 obj _ _ 43 while while SCONJ IN _ 46 mark _ _ 44 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 45 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 46 nsubj _ _ 46 seem seem VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 advcl _ _ 47 so so ADV RB _ 48 advmod _ _ 48 happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 xcomp _ _ 49 and and CCONJ CC _ 50 cc _ _ 50 merry merry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 conj _ _ 51 with with ADP IN _ 53 case _ _ 52 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 53 nmod:poss _ _ 53 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 48 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 54 ! ! PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 55 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | pipe | | | | | lonely *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | woodman | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **puff out** | past | woodman | a long curl of smoke | | | | | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location curl=Source | | 4 | **sit** | to-infinitive | you | | | here | | by ourselves | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by ourselves=Location | | 5 | **play about** | to-infinitive | any children | | | | | about *property* | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **amuse** | present | any children *not said here* | us | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus we=Experiencer | | 7 | **seem** | present | other people | | | | | happy *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=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 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/25/1/) - next →: [sentence 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/25/3/) - ↑ back to [Tom Thumb](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/25/)