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title: ‘Yes,’ said the cook, and weighed her in his hand; ‘she has spared n… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Yes,’ said the cook, and weighed her in his hand; ‘she has spared no trouble to fatten herself, and has been waiting to be roasted long enough.’ Who acts: queen. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The White Snake, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The White Snake, sentence 19

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‘Yes,’ said the cook, and weighed her in his hand; ‘she has spared no trouble to fatten herself, and has been waiting to be roasted long enough.’

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**Who acts:** queen · **What happens:** say, weigh, spare, fatten, wait, roast · **To what, where:** cook, queen, hand, trouble · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The White Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen), 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:pg2591:34:19
# text = ‘Yes,’ said the cook, and weighed her in his hand; ‘she has spared no trouble to fatten herself, and has been waiting to be roasted long enough.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	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	cook	cook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	weighed	weigh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
16	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	spared	spare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
20	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	21	det	_	_
21	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	fatten	fatten	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
24	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	29	aux	_	_
29	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
31	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	roasted	roast	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	advcl	_	_
33	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	32	advmod	_	_
34	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	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 cook |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cook=Topic |
| 2 | **weigh** | past |  | queen |  | king's hand |  |  | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme she=Value |
| 3 | **spare** | present · perfect | queen | no trouble |  |  |  |  | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent trouble=Asset |
| 4 | **fatten** | to-infinitive | queen *not said here* | queen |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent herself=Patient |
| 5 | **wait** | present · perfect · progressive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **roast** | to-infinitive · passive |  |  |  |  |  | enough, long *property* | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V» |

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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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