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title: ‘Hutetu!’ said the old woman, gnashing her teeth together till they… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Hutetu!’ said the old woman, gnashing her teeth together till they chattered inside her mouth; and then she got out the flask which contained nothing but brandy, and her hands trembled so that she shook the bottle about, and when she drank it made a great gulp in her throat. Who acts: Hutetu, teeth
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 185

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‘Hutetu!’ said the old woman, gnashing her teeth together till they chattered inside her mouth; and then she got out the flask which contained nothing but brandy, and her hands trembled so that she shook the bottle about, and when she drank it made a great gulp in her throat.

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**Who acts:** Hutetu, teeth, woman, flask, hands, bottle · **What happens:** say, gnash, chatter, get out, contain, tremble · **To what, where:** teeth, mouth, flask, nothing, bottle, great gulp · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Thief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hutetu, teeth, woman, flask), 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:pg540:9:185
# text = ‘Hutetu!’ said the old woman, gnashing her teeth together till they chattered inside her mouth; and then she got out the flask which contained nothing but brandy, and her hands trembled so that she shook the bottle about, and when she drank it made a great gulp in her throat.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Hutetu	Hutetu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	gnashing	gnash	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	together	together	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
14	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	chattered	chatter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
17	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	advmod	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
25	out	out	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	flask	flask	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
29	contained	contain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	_
30	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	29	obj	_	_
31	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	brandy	brandy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
35	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nsubj	_	_
37	trembled	tremble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
38	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	41	mark	_	_
39	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	38	fixed	_	_
40	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
41	shook	shake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	advcl	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	bottle	bottle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	_
44	about	about	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
47	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	49	advmod	_	_
48	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
49	drank	drink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	advcl	_	_
50	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj	_	_
51	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
52	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
53	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	_
54	gulp	gulp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obj	_	_
55	in	in	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
56	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	57	nmod:poss	_	_
57	throat	throat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Hutetu |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **gnash** | gerund | Hutetu *not said here* | woman's teeth |  |  |  | together *property* | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient |
| 3 | **chatter** | past | teeth *= tooth* |  |  | woman's mouth |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside mouth=Location |
| 4 | **get out** | past | woman | the flask |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **contain** | past | the flask | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot nothing=Theme |
| 6 | **tremble** | past | woman's hands |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **shake** | past | woman | the bottle |  |  |  | about *property* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent bottle=Patient |
| 8 | **drink** | past | woman |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **make** | past | bottle | a great gulp |  | woman's throat |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material gulp=Product |

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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 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.

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