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title: ‘Why,’ said the cock, ‘I was just now saying that we should have fin… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Why,’ said the cock, ‘I was just now saying that we should have fine weather for our washing-day, and yet my mistress and the cook don’t thank me for my pains, but threaten to cut off my head tomorrow, and make broth of me for the guests that are coming on Sunday!’ Who acts: I, we, mistress, guests
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Travelling Musicians, sentence 17

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‘Why,’ said the cock, ‘I was just now saying that we should have fine weather for our washing-day, and yet my mistress and the cook don’t thank me for my pains, but threaten to cut off my head tomorrow, and make broth of me for the guests that are coming on Sunday!’

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**Who acts:** I, we, mistress, guests, my · **What happens:** say, be, have, not thank, threaten, cut off · **To what, where:** cock, fine weather, me, head, broth · **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 (I, we, mistress, guests), 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:pg2591:5:17
# text = ‘Why,’ said the cock, ‘I was just now saying that we should have fine weather for our washing-day, and yet my mistress and the cook don’t thank me for my pains, but threaten to cut off my head tomorrow, and make broth of me for the guests that are coming on Sunday!’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	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	cock	cock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	just	just	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
14	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	ccomp	_	_
19	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
23	washing	washing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
28	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
29	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	mistress	mistress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	cook	cook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
34	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	36	advmod	_	_
36	thank	thank	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
37	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	36	obj	_	_
38	for	for	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	pains	pain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
42	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	threaten	threaten	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	36	parataxis	_	_
44	to	to	PART	TO	_	45	mark	_	_
45	cut	cut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	xcomp	_	_
46	off	off	ADP	RP	_	45	compound:prt	_	_
47	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	48	nmod:poss	_	_
48	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obj	_	_
49	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
52	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	43	conj	_	_
53	broth	broth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obj	_	_
54	of	of	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	53	nmod	_	_
56	for	for	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
57	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
58	guests	guest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	obl	_	_
59	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	61	nsubj	_	_
60	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	61	aux	_	_
61	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	58	acl:relcl	_	_
62	on	on	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
63	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	61	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	36	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 cock |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** *speech: assert* | past | I |  |  |  | now | say *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | should | we | fine weather |  |  | day |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weather=Patient |
| 4 | **not** **thank** *speech: thank* | present · do-support | my mistress and the cook |  | me |  |  | for my pains | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent i=Theme for pain=Attribute |
| 5 | **threaten** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **cut off** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | my head |  |  | tomorrow |  | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality |
| 7 | **make** | infinitive |  | broth of me |  |  |  | for the guests | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent broth=Material for guest=Beneficiary |
| 8 | **come** | present · progressive | the guests |  |  |  | sunday |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 9 | **pain** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom pain «state 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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