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title: Here you must not stay," said they to her; "this is a robbers' hidin… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Here you must not stay," said they to her; "this is a robbers' hiding-place; if they should return and find you here, they would murder you." Who acts: you, Swans, this. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Six Swans, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Six Swans, sentence 33

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Here you must not stay," said they to her; "this is a robbers' hiding-place; if they should return and find you here, they would murder you."

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**Who acts:** you, Swans, this · **What happens:** not stay, say, be, return, find, murder · **To what, where:** maiden, hiding place, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Six Swans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Swans, this), 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:pg11027:19:33
# text = Here you must not stay," said they to her; "this is a robbers' hiding-place; if they should return and find you here, they would murder you."
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	robbers	robber	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	'	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	hiding	hiding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
23	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	conj	_	_
29	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	murder	murder	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	conj	_	_
35	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **stay** | must | you |  |  | here |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | Swans *= swan* |  | maiden |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient |
| 3 | **is a** | present | this | a robbers's hiding place |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **return** *a condition, not said to happen* | should | Swans *= swan* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **find** | infinitive | Swans *= swan* *not said here* | you |  | here |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Topic |
| 6 | **murder** | would | Swans *= swan* | you |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient |

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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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