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title: But the mother said, ‘No, no, she is much too dirty; she will not da… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But the mother said, ‘No, no, she is much too dirty; she will not dare to show herself.’ Who acts: mother. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Miser in the Bush, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Miser in the Bush, sentence 139

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But the mother said, ‘No, no, she is much too dirty; she will not dare to show herself.’

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**Who acts:** mother · **What happens:** say, be, not dare, not show · **To what, where:** mother · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Miser in the Bush. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother), 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:pg2591:33:139
# text = But the mother said, ‘No, no, she is much too dirty; she will not dare to show herself.’
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
6	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	15	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	no	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	15	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
13	much	much	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	too	too	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	dirty	dirty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	dare	dare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	22	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	20	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 mother |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **is** | present | mother |  |  |  |  | dirty *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **dare** | future | mother |  |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **not** **show** | to-infinitive | mother *not said here* |  | mother |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent herself=Recipient |

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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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