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title: “You stupid, inquisitive goose!” replied the dwarf; “I wanted to spl… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “You stupid, inquisitive goose!” replied the dwarf; “I wanted to split the tree, in order to get little chips of wood for our kitchen fire; those thick logs that serve to make fires for coarse, greedy people like yourselves quite burn up all the little food we need. Who acts: You, stupid inquisitive
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 46

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“You stupid, inquisitive goose!” replied the dwarf; “I wanted to split the tree, in order to get little chips of wood for our kitchen fire; those thick logs that serve to make fires for coarse, greedy people like yourselves quite burn up all the little food we need.

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**Who acts:** You, stupid inquisitive goose, thick logs, yourselves, we, our · **What happens:** goose, reply, want, split, get, serve · **To what, where:** dwarf, tree, little chips, fires, little food · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, 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, stupid inquisitive goose, thick logs, yourselves), 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:pg503:36:46
# text = “You stupid, inquisitive goose!” replied the dwarf; “I wanted to split the tree, in order to get little chips of wood for our kitchen fire; those thick logs that serve to make fires for coarse, greedy people like yourselves quite burn up all the little food we need.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	stupid	stupid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	inquisitive	inquisitive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	goose	goose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
9	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|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	:	_	15	punct	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	split	split	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	in	in	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	24	mark	_	_
22	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	fixed	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
25	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	chips	chip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
29	for	for	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
31	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	36	punct	_	_
34	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	36	det	_	_
35	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	logs	log	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
37	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	38	nsubj	_	_
38	serve	serve	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	acl:relcl	_	_
39	to	to	PART	TO	_	40	mark	_	_
40	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	advcl	_	_
41	fires	fire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obj	_	_
42	for	for	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
43	coarse	coarse	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
45	greedy	greedy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nmod	_	_
47	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	50	mark	_	_
48	yourselves	yourselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	50	nsubj	_	_
49	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	_
50	burn	burn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	46	acl:relcl	_	_
51	up	up	ADP	RP	_	50	compound:prt	_	_
52	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	55	det:predet	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
54	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	amod	_	_
55	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	_
56	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	57	nsubj	_	_
57	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	55	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **goose** *in a quote* |  | You |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **reply** *speech: express* | past | stupid inquisitive goose | the dwarf |  |  |  | that thick logs *obl* | tree rules |
| 3 | **want** *in a quote* | past | stupid inquisitive goose *= goose* |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 4 | **split** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | stupid inquisitive goose *= goose* *not said here* | the tree |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Patient |
| 5 | **get** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | stupid inquisitive goose *= goose* *not said here* | little chips of wood |  |  |  | for our kitchen fire | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent chip=Theme for fire=Source |
| 6 | **serve** *in a quote* | present | that thick logs |  |  |  |  |  | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **make** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | that thick logs *not said here* | fires |  |  |  | for coarse greedy people | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent fire=Product for people=Beneficiary |
| 8 | **burn up** *in a quote* | present | yourselves | all little food |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent people=Theme |
| 9 | **need** *in a quote* | present | we | all little food *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot food=Theme |
| 10 | **fire** *in a quote* |  | our |  |  |  |  |  | nom fire «event transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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