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title: "Then go back and lock up the house before we go farther; bring some… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: "Then go back and lock up the house before we go farther; bring something to eat with you, and I will stop here for you." Who acts: you, we, Fred. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Catherine and Frederick, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Catherine and Frederick, sentence 60

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"Then go back and lock up the house before we go farther; bring something to eat with you, and I will stop here for you."

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**Who acts:** you, we, Fred · **What happens:** go back, lock up, go, bring, eat, stop · **To what, where:** house, something

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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 (you, we, Fred), 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:pg11027:12:60
# text = "Then go back and lock up the house before we go farther; bring something to eat with you, and I will stop here for you."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	back	back	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	lock	lock	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
13	farther	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
15	bring	bring	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	15	obj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
26	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	25	advmod	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go back** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | then |  | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **lock up** *in a quote* | present | you *not said here* | the house |  |  |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Patient |
| 3 | **go** *in a quote* | present | we |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **bring** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | something |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent something=Theme |
| 5 | **eat** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | something *not said here* |  |  |  | with you | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **stop** *in a quote* | future | Fred |  |  | here |  | for you | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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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