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title: "Well, come along," said Fred; "we will try at all events; but take… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: "Well, come along," said Fred; "we will try at all events; but take butter and cheese with you, that we may have something to eat on our journey." Who acts: Fred, we, our. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Catherine and Frederick, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Catherine and Frederick, sentence 38

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"Well, come along," said Fred; "we will try at all events; but take butter and cheese with you, that we may have something to eat on our journey."

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**Who acts:** Fred, we, our · **What happens:** come along, say, try, take, have, eat · **To what, where:** events, butter, something, journey · **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 (Fred, we, our), 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:pg11027:12:38
# text = "Well, come along," said Fred; "we will try at all events; but take butter and cheese with you, that we may have something to eat on our journey."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
5	along	along	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	Fred	Fred	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
17	events	event	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
21	butter	butter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	cheese	cheese	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
28	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
31	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	30	obj	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	acl	_	_
34	on	on	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come along** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | along *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Fred |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **try** *in a quote* | future | we |  |  | all events |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **take** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | butter and cheese |  |  |  | with you | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent butter=Theme |
| 5 | **have** *in a quote* | may | we | something |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient |
| 6 | **eat** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | we *not said here* | something *not said here* |  | our journey |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **journey** *in a quote* |  | our |  |  |  |  |  | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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