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title: The woman exclaimed: “What a donkey you are! that isn’t your kitten,… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The woman exclaimed: “What a donkey you are! that isn’t your kitten, that’s the morning sun shining on the chimney.” Who acts: woman, you, that, morning sun. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Hansel and Grettel, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 25

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The woman exclaimed: “What a donkey you are! that isn’t your kitten, that’s the morning sun shining on the chimney.”

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**Who acts:** woman, you, that, morning sun · **What happens:** exclaim, not be, be, shine · **To what, where:** kitten, morning sun, chimney · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Hansel and Grettel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, you, that, morning sun), 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:pg503:35:25
# text = The woman exclaimed: “What a donkey you are! that isn’t your kitten, that’s the morning sun shining on the chimney.”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
5	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	What	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	8	det	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	donkey	donkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
15	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	kitten	kitten	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	’s	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
23	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	acl	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	chimney	chimney	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | past | the woman |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **is a** *in a quote* | present | you | your kitten |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | that | the morning sun |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **shine** *in a quote* | gerund | the morning sun *not said here* |  |  | the chimney |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on chimney=Location |

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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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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