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title: The miser cried out, ‘Oh, no! no! for heaven’s sake don’t listen to… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The miser cried out, ‘Oh, no! no! for heaven’s sake don’t listen to him! don’t listen to him!’ Who acts: miser. 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 37

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The miser cried out, ‘Oh, no! no! for heaven’s sake don’t listen to him! don’t listen to him!’

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**Who acts:** miser · **What happens:** cry out, not listen · **To what, where:** other

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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 (miser), 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:pg2591:33:37
# text = The miser cried out, ‘Oh, no! no! for heaven’s sake don’t listen to him! don’t listen to him!’
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	miser	miser	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
6	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	19	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	no	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
11	no	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	’s	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	sake	sake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
17	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	listen	listen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	_
23	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	listen	listen	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	19	parataxis	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry out** *speech: express* | past | the miser |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **listen** | present · do-support | the miser *not said here* |  | other |  |  |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to he=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **listen** | infinitive · do-support |  |  | other |  |  |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to he=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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