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title: Only you must take care to make my bed well, and to shake it thoroug… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Only you must take care to make my bed well, and to shake it thoroughly till the feathers fly--for then there is snow on the earth. Who acts: you, feathers, snow. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Mother Holle, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Mother Holle, sentence 16

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Only you must take care to make my bed well, and to shake it thoroughly till the feathers fly--for then there is snow on the earth.

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**Who acts:** you, feathers, snow · **What happens:** take, make, shake, fly, be · **To what, where:** care, bed, earth

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This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Mother Holle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, feathers, snow), 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:pg11027:20:16
# text = Only you must take care to make my bed well, and to shake it thoroughly till the feathers fly--for then there is snow on the earth.
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	shake	shake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	thoroughly	thoroughly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
17	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
20	fly	fly	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	25	obl	_	_
24	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	25	expl	_	_
25	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
26	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | must | you | care |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | my bed |  |  |  | well *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bed=Product |
| 3 | **shake** | to-infinitive |  | bed |  |  |  | thoroughly *property* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 4 | **fly** | present | the feathers |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **be** | present | snow |  |  | the earth; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on earth=Location |

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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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