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title: ‘Bravo!’ said the ass; ‘upon my word, you make a famous noise; pray… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Bravo!’ said the ass; ‘upon my word, you make a famous noise; pray what is all this about?’ Who acts: you, my. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Travelling Musicians, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Travelling Musicians, sentence 16

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‘Bravo!’ said the ass; ‘upon my word, you make a famous noise; pray what is all this about?’

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**Who acts:** you, my · **What happens:** say, make, pray, be, word · **To what, where:** ass, famous noise, this · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Travelling Musicians. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, my), 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:pg2591:5:16
# text = ‘Bravo!’ said the ass; ‘upon my word, you make a famous noise; pray what is all this about?’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Bravo	bravo	INTJ	UH	Number=Sing	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	ass	ass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
9	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
20	pray	pray	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
21	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	20	obj	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	24	det:predet	_	_
24	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	nsubj	_	_
25	about	about	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	’	'	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 ass |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent ass=Topic |
| 2 | **make** | present | you | a famous noise |  |  |  | upon my word | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent noise=Product |
| 3 | **pray** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | present |  | this |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **word** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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