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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Catherine and Frederick, sentence 37

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Catherine stood considering for awhile, and presently she began, "Come, Fred, we will soon get the gold back again; let us pursue the thieves."

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**Who acts:** Catherine, we, us · **What happens:** stand, consider, begin, come, get, let · **To what, where:** Fred, gold, us, thieves · **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, we, us), 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:pg11027:12:37
# text = Catherine stood considering for awhile, and presently she began, "Come, Fred, we will soon get the gold back again; let us pursue the thieves."
1	Catherine	Catherine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	considering	consider	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	xcomp	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	awhile	awhile	ADV	RB	_	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	presently	presently	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	Fred	Fred	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	20	advmod	_	_
20	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	back	back	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	again	again	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
26	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
27	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	pursue	pursue	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	thieves	thief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | Catherine |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **consider** | gerund | Catherine *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **begin** | past | Catherine |  |  |  |  | presently *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **come** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | Fred |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **get** *in a quote* | future | we | the gold |  |  | again | soon *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer gold=Stimulus |
| 6 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **pursue** *in a quote* | infinitive | us *not said here* | the thieves |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thief=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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