--- title: ‘Ah! wretch that I am!’ sighed she; ‘why did I not marry King Grisly… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: ‘Ah! wretch that I am!’ sighed she; ‘why did I not marry King Grisly-beard?’ Who acts: wretch, I. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, King Grisly-beard, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/58/31/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Grimms' Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/) / [King Grisly-beard](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/58/) / 31 # Grimms' Fairy Tales, King Grisly-beard, sentence 31 ‘Ah! wretch that I am!’ sighed she; ‘why did I not marry King Grisly-beard?’ **Who acts:** wretch, I · **What happens:** sigh, not marry · **To what, where:** city, King This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, King Grisly-beard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wretch, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2591:58:31 # text = ‘Ah! wretch that I am!’ sighed she; ‘why did I not marry King Grisly-beard?’ 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Ah ah INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ! ! PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ 4 wretch wretch NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 5 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 7 obj _ _ 6 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ! ! PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 10 sighed sigh VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 13 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 18 advmod _ _ 15 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 16 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 18 advmod _ _ 18 marry marry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 19 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 20 Grisly grisly ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 beard beard NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ? ? PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sigh** | past | wretch | city | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic | | 2 | **not** **marry** | past · do-support | I | King | | | | beard *obl* | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/58/30/) - next →: [sentence 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/58/32/) - ↑ back to [King Grisly-beard](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/58/)