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title: The next was too short: ‘What a dumpling!’ said she. — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The next was too short: ‘What a dumpling!’ said she. Who acts: next, dumpling. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, King Grisly-beard, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, King Grisly-beard, sentence 6

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The next was too short: ‘What a dumpling!’ said she.

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**Who acts:** next, dumpling · **What happens:** be, say · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (next, dumpling), 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:pg2591:58:6
# text = The next was too short: ‘What a dumpling!’ said she.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	too	too	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
7	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	What	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	10	det:predet	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	dumpling	dumpling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
13	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the next |  |  |  |  | short *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | what dumpling |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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