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title: ‘Out with you, you idle, good-for-nothing creatures!’ cried they; ‘w… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Out with you, you idle, good-for-nothing creatures!’ cried they; ‘we cannot find food for you any longer; you are big enough, and can provide for yourselves.’ Who acts: you, we. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The White Snake, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The White Snake, sentence 31

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‘Out with you, you idle, good-for-nothing creatures!’ cried they; ‘we cannot find food for you any longer; you are big enough, and can provide for yourselves.’

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**Who acts:** you, we · **What happens:** cry, not find, be, provide · **To what, where:** creatures, food

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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 (you, we), 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:pg2591:34:31
# text = ‘Out with you, you idle, good-for-nothing creatures!’ cried they; ‘we cannot find food for you any longer; you are big enough, and can provide for yourselves.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Out	out	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	parataxis	_	_
7	idle	idle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	14	compound	_	_
14	creatures	creature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
17	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
20	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
25	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	_
28	any	any	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
33	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	parataxis	_	_
34	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	provide	provide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	conj	_	_
39	for	for	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	yourselves	yourselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	17	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 | you | creatures *= creature* |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **find** | can | we | food |  |  |  | for you; long *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent food=Theme for you=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **is** | present | you |  |  |  |  | big, enough *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **provide** | can | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for yourselves | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent for yourselves=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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