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title: ‘Ah!’ said the wife, ‘and I am so full of distress and uneasiness th… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Ah!’ said the wife, ‘and I am so full of distress and uneasiness that my teeth chatter, and I feel as if there were a fire in my veins,’ and she tore open her dress; and all the while little Marleen sat in the corner and wept, and the plate on her knees was wet with her tears. Who acts: wife, I, te
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Juniper-tree, sentence 116

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‘Ah!’ said the wife, ‘and I am so full of distress and uneasiness that my teeth chatter, and I feel as if there were a fire in my veins,’ and she tore open her dress; and all the while little Marleen sat in the corner and wept, and the plate on her knees was wet with her tears.

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**Who acts:** wife, I, teeth, fire, little Marleen, plate · **What happens:** say, be, chatter, feel, tore, sit · **To what, where:** distress, open dress, corner · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Juniper-tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, I, teeth, fire), 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:pg2591:38:116
# text = ‘Ah!’ said the wife, ‘and I am so full of distress and uneasiness that my teeth chatter, and I feel as if there were a fire in my veins,’ and she tore open her dress; and all the while little Marleen sat in the corner and wept, and the plate on her knees was wet with her tears.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	‘	‘	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	distress	distress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	uneasiness	uneasiness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	obj	_	_
20	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	chatter	chatter	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	feel	feel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
27	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
28	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
29	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	30	expl	_	_
30	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	advcl	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	veins	vein	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
39	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
40	tore	tore	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
41	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
42	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
43	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
46	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	51	det:predet	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
48	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	51	mark	_	_
49	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	Marleen	Marleen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	51	nsubj	_	_
51	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
52	in	in	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obl	_	_
55	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
56	wept	weep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	65	punct	_	_
58	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	65	cc	_	_
59	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
60	plate	plate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	65	nsubj	_	_
61	on	on	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
62	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	63	nmod:poss	_	_
63	knees	knee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	60	nmod	_	_
64	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	65	cop	_	_
65	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	conj	_	_
66	with	with	ADP	IN	_	68	case	_	_
67	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	68	nmod:poss	_	_
68	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	65	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
69	.	.	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 wife |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | of distress and uneasiness; full *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **chatter** | present | my teeth | distress and uneasiness |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent that=Theme |
| 4 | **feel** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **be** | past | a fire in my veins |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **tore** | past | wife | wife's open dress |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **sit** | past | little Marleen |  |  | the corner |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in corner=Location |
| 8 | **weep** | past | little Marleen *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **is** | past | the plate on wife's knees |  |  |  |  | with wife's tears; wet *property* | tree rules |

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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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