--- title: ‘Well,’ says the hen-wife, ‘it is because you are so stupid that you… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘Well,’ says the hen-wife, ‘it is because you are so stupid that you don’t observe or find out those affairs that are so dangerous and hurtful to yourself and your child.’ Who acts: reason, you, affairs. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (reason, you, affairs), 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:pg540:8:26 # text = ‘Well,’ says the hen-wife, ‘it is because you are so stupid that you don’t observe or find out those affairs that are so dangerous and hurtful to yourself and your child.’ 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Well well INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 5 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 7 hen hen NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 11 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 14 because because SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 15 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 16 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 17 so so ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 stupid stupid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 ccomp _ _ 19 that that SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 20 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 21 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 22 n’t not PART RB Polarity=Neg 23 advmod _ _ 23 observe observe VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 advcl _ _ 24 or or CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 conj _ _ 26 out out ADP RP _ 25 compound:prt _ _ 27 those that DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 28 det _ _ 28 affairs affair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 29 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 32 nsubj _ _ 30 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 31 so so ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 dangerous dangerous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 acl:relcl _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 hurtful hurtful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 conj _ _ 35 to to ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 yourself yourself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 34 obl _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 38 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | | the hen wife | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent wife=Topic | | 2 | **is** | present | reason | | | | | stupid *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **observe** | present · do-support | you | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **find out** | infinitive | you *not said here* | that affairs | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent affair=Topic | | 5 | **is** | present | that affairs | | | | | dangerous *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **be** | | that affairs *not said here* | | yourself | | | | tree rules | 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:** «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/8/25/) - next →: [sentence 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/8/27/) - ↑ back to [The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/8/)