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title: At last he said: ‘Oh, you wretched beard-cleaner, you piebald fool,… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: At last he said: ‘Oh, you wretched beard-cleaner, you piebald fool, you hungry mouse-hunter, what can you be thinking of? Who acts: fox, you. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Fox and the Cat, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Fox and the Cat, sentence 6

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At last he said: ‘Oh, you wretched beard-cleaner, you piebald fool, you hungry mouse-hunter, what can you be thinking of?

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**Who acts:** fox, you · **What happens:** say, cleaner, fool, hunter, think · **To what, where:** last, hungry mouse hunter · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Fox and the Cat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fox, 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:pg2591:42:6
# text = At last he said: ‘Oh, you wretched beard-cleaner, you piebald fool, you hungry mouse-hunter, what can you be thinking of?
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	last	last	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
6	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	13	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
10	wretched	wretched	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
11	beard	beard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	cleaner	cleaner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	piebald	piebald	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	fool	fool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
20	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
21	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	hunter	hunter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	29	obj	_	_
26	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	aux	_	_
29	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	conj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | fox |  |  | last |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **cleaner** |  | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **fool** |  | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **hunter** |  | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **think** *speech: other* | can · progressive | you | hungry mouse hunter |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=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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