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title: ‘Wife, wife,’ said Frederick, ‘what a pretty piece of work you have… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Wife, wife,’ said Frederick, ‘what a pretty piece of work you have made! those yellow buttons were all my money: how came you to do such a thing?’ Who acts: Wife, you, yellow buttons. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Frederick and Catherine, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Frederick and Catherine, sentence 40

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‘Wife, wife,’ said Frederick, ‘what a pretty piece of work you have made! those yellow buttons were all my money: how came you to do such a thing?’

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**Who acts:** Wife, you, yellow buttons · **What happens:** say, piece, make, be, come, do · **To what, where:** work, money, you, thing · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Frederick and Catherine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wife, you, yellow buttons), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg2591:29:40
# text = ‘Wife, wife,’ said Frederick, ‘what a pretty piece of work you have made! those yellow buttons were all my money: how came you to do such a thing?’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	Frederick	Frederick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	14	nsubj	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	ccomp	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
21	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	23	det	_	_
22	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	buttons	button	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
24	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
25	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	27	det:predet	_	_
26	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
29	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	30	advmod	_	_
30	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
31	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	advcl	_	_
34	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	36	det:predet	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	30	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Wife and wife |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **piece** |  |  |  |  |  |  | of work | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | present · perfect | you | work *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Product |
| 4 | **is a** | past | that yellow buttons | my money |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **come** | past |  | you |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location you=Theme |
| 6 | **do** | to-infinitive |  | such thing |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality |

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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.

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**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.

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