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title: ‘Oh,’ said the father, ‘she has plenty of good sense’; and the mothe… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Oh,’ said the father, ‘she has plenty of good sense’; and the mother said: ‘Oh, she can see the wind coming up the street, and hear the flies coughing.’ Who acts: Clever, mother, wind, flies. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Clever Elsie, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Clever Elsie, sentence 5

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‘Oh,’ said the father, ‘she has plenty of good sense’; and the mother said: ‘Oh, she can see the wind coming up the street, and hear the flies coughing.’

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**Who acts:** Clever, mother, wind, flies · **What happens:** say, have, see, come up, hear, cough · **To what, where:** father, plenty, wind, street, flies · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Clever Elsie. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Clever, mother, wind, flies), 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:pg2591:32:5
# text = ‘Oh,’ said the father, ‘she has plenty of good sense’; and the mother said: ‘Oh, she can see the wind coming up the street, and hear the flies coughing.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	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	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
12	plenty	plenty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	sense	sense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
23	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	28	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
26	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	ccomp	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	30	acl	_	_
32	up	up	ADP	RP	_	31	compound:prt	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	conj	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	flies	fly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obj	_	_
40	coughing	cough	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	39	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	28	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 |  | the father |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | present | Clever | plenty of good sense |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plenty=Patient |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the mother |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **see** | can | Clever | the wind |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wind=Stimulus |
| 5 | **come up** | gerund | the wind *not said here* | the street |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **hear** | infinitive | Clever *not said here* | the flies |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer fly=Stimulus |
| 7 | **cough** | gerund | the flies *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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