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title: "No, Catherine dear! do hold it fast," said Fred. — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: "No, Catherine dear! do hold it fast," said Fred. Who acts: Catherine, 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 90

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"No, Catherine dear! do hold it fast," said Fred.

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**Who acts:** Catherine, Fred · **What happens:** hold, say · **To what, where:** dew · **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, 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:pg11027:12:90
# text = "No, Catherine dear! do hold it fast," said Fred.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Catherine	Catherine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
7	do	do	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
13	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	Fred	Fred	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** *in a quote* | infinitive | Catherine | dew |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: express* | past | Fred |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |

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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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