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title: 'Stupid fellow! what is the use of you?' grumbled his father angrily… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Stupid fellow! what is the use of you?' grumbled his father angrily; and he bade first one and then another of his sons to fetch him the tool, but they had no better success than their brother. Who acts: Stupid fellow, Patto, fellows. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, p
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 35, sentence 89

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'Stupid fellow! what is the use of you?' grumbled his father angrily; and he bade first one and then another of his sons to fetch him the tool, but they had no better success than their brother.

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**Who acts:** Stupid fellow, Patto, fellows · **What happens:** be, grumble, bade, fetch, have · **To what, where:** use, father, one, tool, Patto, better success

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Stupid fellow, Patto, fellows), 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:pg3027:35:89
# text = 'Stupid fellow! what is the use of you?' grumbled his father angrily; and he bade first one and then another of his sons to fetch him the tool, but they had no better success than their brother.
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Stupid	stupid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	fellow	fellow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
5	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
13	grumbled	grumble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	angrily	angrily	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	bade	bade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
21	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	22	advmod	_	_
22	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	25	advmod	_	_
25	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	22	conj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	acl	_	_
31	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	tool	tool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
36	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
38	no	no	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	40	amod	_	_
40	success	success	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
41	than	than	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
43	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Stupid fellow | the use |  |  |  | of you | tree rules |
| 2 | **grumble** *speech: other* | past | Stupid fellow | Patto's father |  |  |  | angrily *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Topic |
| 3 | **bade** |  | Patto | one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **fetch** | to-infinitive | Patto *not said here* | the tool | Patto |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary tool=Theme |
| 5 | **have** | past | fellows *= fellow* | better success |  |  |  | than fellows's brother | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent success=Patient |

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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:** «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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