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title: ‘Give an answer,’ cried the boy, ‘or take yourself off, you have no… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Give an answer,’ cried the boy, ‘or take yourself off, you have no business here at night.’ Who acts: you. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 25

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‘Give an answer,’ cried the boy, ‘or take yourself off, you have no business here at night.’

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** give, cry, take off, have · **To what, where:** answer, boy, yourself, business

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg2591:57:25
# text = ‘Give an answer,’ cried the boy, ‘or take yourself off, you have no business here at night.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	parataxis	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
7	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	‘	‘	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
14	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	13	obj	_	_
15	off	off	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
19	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	20	det	_	_
20	business	business	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | infinitive |  | a answer |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Theme |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past |  | the boy and ‘ |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Topic |
| 3 | **take off** | infinitive |  | yourself |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Theme |
| 4 | **have** | present | you | no business |  | here | night |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent business=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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