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title: It is true that I have carried thee off; but that is because of my o… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: It is true that I have carried thee off; but that is because of my overwhelming love for thee. Who acts: merchant, I, that. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Faithful John, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Faithful John, sentence 51

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It is true that I have carried thee off; but that is because of my overwhelming love for thee.

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**Who acts:** merchant, I, that · **What happens:** be, carry off · **To what, where:** thee

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This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Faithful John. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (merchant, I, that), 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:pg11027:16:51
# text = It is true that I have carried thee off; but that is because of my overwhelming love for thee.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
8	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	7	obj	_	_
9	off	off	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
14	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	18	case	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	fixed	_	_
16	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	overwhelming	overwhelming	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | merchant |  |  |  |  | true *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **carry off** | present · perfect | I | thee |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | that |  |  |  |  | because my overwhelming love; for thee | tree rules |

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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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