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title: ‘You senseless goose!’ snarled the dwarf; ‘why should you fetch some… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘You senseless goose!’ snarled the dwarf; ‘why should you fetch someone? Who acts: You, senseless goose. 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 56

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‘You senseless goose!’ snarled the dwarf; ‘why should you fetch someone?

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**Who acts:** You, senseless goose · **What happens:** goose, snarl, fetch · **To what, where:** dwarf, someone

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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, senseless goose), 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:pg2591:60:56
# text = ‘You senseless goose!’ snarled the dwarf; ‘why should you fetch someone?
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	senseless	senseless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	goose	goose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	snarled	snarl	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	dwarf	dwarf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
11	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
13	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
16	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **goose** |  | You |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **snarl** | past | senseless goose | the dwarf |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent dwarf=Theme |
| 3 | **fetch** | should | you | someone |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Theme |

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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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