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title: ‘What are you up to, little man?’ asked Rose-red. — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘What are you up to, little man?’ asked Rose-red. Who acts: you. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Snow-white and Rose-red, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 49

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‘What are you up to, little man?’ asked Rose-red.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** be, ask · **To what, where:** Rose

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Snow-white and Rose-red. 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:pg2591:60:49
# text = ‘What are you up to, little man?’ asked Rose-red.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	12	obj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	cop	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
12	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	Rose	Rose	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | you |  |  |  |  | little man *vocative* | tree rules |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past |  |  | Rose |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent rose=Recipient |

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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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