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title: “Crazy blockheads!” snapped the dwarf; “what’s the good of calling a… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Crazy blockheads!” snapped the dwarf; “what’s the good of calling anyone else? Who acts: Crazy blockheads. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Snow-white and Rose-red, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 51

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“Crazy blockheads!” snapped the dwarf; “what’s the good of calling anyone else?

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**Who acts:** Crazy blockheads · **What happens:** snap, be, call · **To what, where:** dwarf, anyone · **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 (Crazy blockheads), 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:pg503:36:51
# text = “Crazy blockheads!” snapped the dwarf; “what’s the good of calling anyone else?
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Crazy	crazy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	blockheads	blockhead	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	snapped	snap	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	dwarf	dwarf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
10	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	’s	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	_
15	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	calling	call	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
17	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	16	obj	_	_
18	else	else	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **snap** | past | Crazy blockheads | the dwarf |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **call** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  | anyone |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent anyone=Recipient |

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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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