--- title: “What shall we do, what shall we do?” said the widow, wringing her h… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: “What shall we do, what shall we do?” said the widow, wringing her hands. Who acts: we, widow. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and the Beanstalk, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/16/4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [English Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/) / [Jack and the Beanstalk](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/16/) / 4 # English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, sentence 4 “What shall we do, what shall we do?” said the widow, wringing her hands. **Who acts:** we, widow · **What happens:** do, say, wring · **To what, where:** hands · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and the Beanstalk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, widow), 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:pg7439:16:4 # text = “What shall we do, what shall we do?” said the widow, wringing her hands. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 5 obj _ _ 3 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 7 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 10 obj _ _ 8 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 9 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ” " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 13 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 widow widow NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 wringing wring VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 advcl _ _ 18 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** *in a quote* | shall | we | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | | 2 | **do** *in a quote* | shall | we | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | | 3 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | the widow | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **wring** | gerund | the widow *not said here* | widow's hands | | | | | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | 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:** «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/16/3/) - next →: [sentence 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/16/5/) - ↑ back to [Jack and the Beanstalk](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/16/)