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title: "Oh, Catherine, Catherine!" said Fred; "you should not have done so!… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: "Oh, Catherine, Catherine!" said Fred; "you should not have done so! to let the sausage be stolen! and the beer run out! and over all to shoot our best sack of malt!" Who acts: Catherine, you, beer. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Catherine and Frederick, with its dependency tr
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Catherine and Frederick, sentence 19

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"Oh, Catherine, Catherine!" said Fred; "you should not have done so! to let the sausage be stolen! and the beer run out! and over all to shoot our best sack of malt!"

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**Who acts:** Catherine, you, beer · **What happens:** say, not do, let, steal, run out, shoot · **To what, where:** sausage, best sack · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Catherine and Frederick. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Catherine, you, beer), 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:pg11027:12:19
# text = "Oh, Catherine, Catherine!" said Fred; "you should not have done so! to let the sausage be stolen! and the beer run out! and over all to shoot our best sack of malt!"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Catherine	Catherine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	Catherine	Catherine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	Fred	Fred	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
14	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
16	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	aux	_	_
17	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	ccomp	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	sausage	sausage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	stolen	steal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	beer	beer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
31	out	out	ADP	RP	_	30	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
34	over	over	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	all	all	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	shoot	shoot	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
38	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
39	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	40	amod	_	_
40	sack	sack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	malt	malt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	37	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: express* | past | Catherine |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **do** *in a quote* | should · perfect | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **let** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **steal** *in a quote* | infinitive · passive |  | the sausage |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **run out** *in a quote* | infinitive | the beer |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **shoot** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Catherine *not said here* | our best sack of malt |  |  |  | all *property* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sack=Theme |

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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:** «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (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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