--- title: ‘Ah,’ said the wife, ‘the poor knave came in the storm and rain, and… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: ‘Ah,’ said the wife, ‘the poor knave came in the storm and rain, and begged for shelter, so I gave him a bit of bread and cheese, and showed him where the straw was.’ Who acts: poor knave, I, straw. 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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 (poor knave, I, straw), 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:pg2591:28:30 # text = ‘Ah,’ said the wife, ‘the poor knave came in the storm and rain, and begged for shelter, so I gave him a bit of bread and cheese, and showed him where the straw was.’ 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Ah ah INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 5 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 9 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 knave knave NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 storm storm NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 rain rain NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 begged beg VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 conj _ _ 22 for for ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 shelter shelter NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 so so ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 26 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 28 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 iobj _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl:unmarked _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 bread bread NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 cheese cheese NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 showed show VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 38 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 iobj _ _ 39 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 42 advmod _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 straw straw NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nsubj _ _ 42 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | | the wife | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent wife=Topic | | 2 | **come** | past | the poor knave | | | the storm and rain | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in storm=Location | | 3 | **beg** *speech: request* | participle | the poor knave *not said here* | | | | | for shelter | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for shelter=Topic | | 4 | **give** | past | I | a bit of bread and cheese | knave | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 5 | **show** | past | | | knave | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | | 6 | **be** | past | the straw | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: 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 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/28/29/) - next →: [sentence 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/28/31/) - ↑ back to [The Little Peasant](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/28/)