--- title: ‘I am not such a fool!’ cried the dwarf; ‘don’t you see that the acc… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: ‘I am not such a fool!’ cried the dwarf; ‘don’t you see that the accursed fish wants to pull me in?’ Who acts: I, fool, you, accursed fish. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Snow-white and Rose-red, 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/pg2591/60/65/) [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/) / [Snow-white and Rose-red](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/60/) / 65 # Grimms' Fairy Tales, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 65 ‘I am not such a fool!’ cried the dwarf; ‘don’t you see that the accursed fish wants to pull me in?’ **Who acts:** I, fool, you, accursed fish · **What happens:** not be, cry, do, not see, accurs, want · **To what, where:** fool, dwarf, me 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, fool, you, accursed fish), 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:pg2591:60:65 # text = ‘I am not such a fool!’ cried the dwarf; ‘don’t you see that the accursed fish wants to pull me in?’ 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 3 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 5 such such DET PDT PronType=Ind 7 det:predet _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 fool fool NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ! ! PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 10 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 dwarf dwarf NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 do do VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 16 n’t not PART RB Polarity=Neg 18 advmod _ _ 17 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 see see VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl _ _ 19 that that SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 accursed accurs VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 amod _ _ 22 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 wants want VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 advcl _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 pull pull VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 xcomp _ _ 26 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 25 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 28 ? ? PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is a** | present | I | such fool | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | such fool | the dwarf | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dwarf=Topic | | 3 | **do** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **not** **see** | present | you | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **accurs** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **want** | present | the accursed fish | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 7 | **pull in** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the accursed fish *not said here* | me | | | | | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent i=Result | 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 64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/60/64/) - next →: [sentence 66](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/60/66/) - ↑ back to [Snow-white and Rose-red](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/60/)