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title: Those fellows up there did not open their mouths, and were so stupid… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Those fellows up there did not open their mouths, and were so stupid that they let the few old rags which they had on their bodies get burnt.’ Who acts: fellows, mouths, rags, few old rags. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear W
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 75

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Those fellows up there did not open their mouths, and were so stupid that they let the few old rags which they had on their bodies get burnt.’

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**Who acts:** fellows, mouths, rags, few old rags · **What happens:** not open, be, let, have, get · **To what, where:** mouths, few old rags, bodies

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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 (fellows, mouths, rags, few old rags), 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:pg2591:57:75
# text = Those fellows up there did not open their mouths, and were so stupid that they let the few old rags which they had on their bodies get burnt.’
1	Those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	fellows	fellow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
3	up	up	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
5	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	open	open	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	mouths	mouth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	stupid	stupid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	let	let	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	rags	rag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	obj	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	bodies	body	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
28	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	ccomp	_	_
29	burnt	burnt	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **open** | past · do-support | that fellows | rags's mouths |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mouth=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | that fellows *not said here* |  |  |  |  | stupid *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **let** | past | mouths *= mouth* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | past | rags *= rag* | the few old rags |  | rags's bodies |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient |
| 5 | **get** | present | the few old rags |  |  |  |  | burnt *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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