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title: Then Mrs Fox said: ‘Has the gentleman red stockings on, and has a li… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Mrs Fox said: ‘Has the gentleman red stockings on, and has a little pointed mouth?’ Who acts: Mrs Fox. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Second Story, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Second Story, sentence 22

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Then Mrs Fox said: ‘Has the gentleman red stockings on, and has a little pointed mouth?’

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**Who acts:** Mrs Fox · **What happens:** say, have · **To what, where:** gentleman, little pointed mouth · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Second Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mrs Fox), 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:pg2591:55:22
# text = Then Mrs Fox said: ‘Has the gentleman red stockings on, and has a little pointed mouth?’
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	Mrs	Mrs	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
6	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	stockings	stocking	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
12	on	on	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	pointed	pointed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	’	'	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 | Mrs Fox |  |  |  | then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **have** | present |  | the gentleman |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | present |  | a little pointed mouth |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouth=Patient |

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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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