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title: Let him stay in the water with his equals; he cannot enter into soci… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Let him stay in the water with his equals; he cannot enter into society." Who acts: you, playmate. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Frog Prince, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Frog Prince, sentence 17

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Let him stay in the water with his equals; he cannot enter into society."

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**Who acts:** you, playmate · **What happens:** let, stay, not enter · **To what, where:** playmate, water, society

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This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Frog Prince. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, playmate), 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:pg11027:21:17
# text = Let him stay in the water with his equals; he cannot enter into society."
1	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	equals	equal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	enter	enter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	society	society	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | playmate |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **stay** | infinitive | playmate *not said here* |  |  | the water |  | with playmate's equals | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in water=Location |
| 3 | **not** **enter** | can | playmate |  |  | society |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into society=Initial\_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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