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title: ‘Oh, for heaven’s sake!’ cried the miser, ‘Master! master! pray let… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Oh, for heaven’s sake!’ cried the miser, ‘Master! master! pray let the fiddle alone. Who acts: sake. 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 23

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‘Oh, for heaven’s sake!’ cried the miser, ‘Master! master! pray let the fiddle alone.

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**Who acts:** sake · **What happens:** cry, pray, let · **To what, where:** miser, master, fiddle

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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 (sake), 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:pg2591:33:23
# text = ‘Oh, for heaven’s sake!’ cried the miser, ‘Master! master! pray let the fiddle alone.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’s	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	sake	sake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
10	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	miser	miser	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
17	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
19	pray	pray	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
20	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	ccomp	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	fiddle	fiddle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | heaven's sake | the miser |  |  |  | Master *obl* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent miser=Topic |
| 2 | **pray** | present | heaven's sake *not said here* | master |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **let** | infinitive | heaven's sake *not said here* | the fiddle |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fiddle=Theme |

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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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