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title: ‘You stupid, prying goose!’ answered the dwarf: ‘I was going to spli… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘You stupid, prying goose!’ answered the dwarf: ‘I was going to split the tree to get a little wood for cooking. Who acts: I. 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 50

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‘You stupid, prying goose!’ answered the dwarf: ‘I was going to split the tree to get a little wood for cooking.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** pry, answer, go, split, get · **To what, where:** goose, dwarf, tree, little wood

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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 (I), 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:pg2591:60:50
# text = ‘You stupid, prying goose!’ answered the dwarf: ‘I was going to split the tree to get a little wood for cooking.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stupid	stupid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	prying	pry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
6	goose	goose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
9	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	dwarf	dwarf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
13	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	split	split	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	cooking	cooking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pry** | gerund |  |  | goose |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent goose=Recipient |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past |  |  | the dwarf |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent dwarf=Eventuality |
| 3 | **go** | past · progressive | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **split** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | the tree |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Patient |
| 5 | **get** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | a little wood |  |  |  | for cooking | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent wood=Theme for cooking=Source |

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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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