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title: Then the father fell into a rage and said: ‘Oh, you lost man, you ha… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the father fell into a rage and said: ‘Oh, you lost man, you have spent the precious time and learnt nothing; are you not ashamed to appear before my eyes? Who acts: father, you. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Three Languages, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Three Languages, sentence 12

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Then the father fell into a rage and said: ‘Oh, you lost man, you have spent the precious time and learnt nothing; are you not ashamed to appear before my eyes?

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**Who acts:** father, you · **What happens:** fall, say, lose, spend, learn, not be · **To what, where:** rage, man, nothing, eyes · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Three Languages. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, you), 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:pg2591:41:12
# text = Then the father fell into a rage and said: ‘Oh, you lost man, you have spent the precious time and learnt nothing; are you not ashamed to appear before my eyes?
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	rage	rage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
11	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	15	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	_
16	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	spent	spend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	parataxis	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	learnt	learn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
26	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
29	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
31	ashamed	ashamed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	appear	appear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	xcomp	_	_
34	before	before	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past | the father |  |  |  | then | into a rage *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into rage=Result |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the father *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **lose** | past | you | man |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Eventuality |
| 4 | **spend** | present · perfect | you |  |  |  | time |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **learn** | past | you *not said here* | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic |
| 6 | **not** **is** | present | you |  |  |  |  | ashamed *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **appear** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  | my eyes |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before eye=Location |

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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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