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title: You must mind and do his will," continued the eldest, "or he will be… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: You must mind and do his will," continued the eldest, "or he will begin growling!" Who acts: You, bear. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Goose, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 101

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You must mind and do his will," continued the eldest, "or he will begin growling!"

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**Who acts:** You, bear · **What happens:** mind, do, continue, begin, growl · **To what, where:** eldest

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This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Goose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, bear), 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:pg11027:15:101
# text = You must mind and do his will," continued the eldest, "or he will begin growling!"
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	mind	mind	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
10	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	eldest	eld	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	begin	begin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
19	growling	growl	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mind** | must | You |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **do** | infinitive | You *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **continue** *in a quote* | past |  | the eldest |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **begin** | future | bear |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **growl** | gerund | bear *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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