--- title: Alas! if you will take me with you I shall be happy, for now I suffe… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics description: Alas! if you will take me with you I shall be happy, for now I suffer hunger and thirst, and am in trouble and grief from early morning to late evening; take me, and save me!" Who acts: you, I. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg11027:25:89 # text = Alas! if you will take me with you I shall be happy, for now I suffer hunger and thirst, and am in trouble and grief from early morning to late evening; take me, and save me!" 1 Alas alas INTJ UH _ 6 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ! ! PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ 3 if if SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 4 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 5 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 obj _ _ 8 with with ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 6 obl _ _ 10 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 11 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 12 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 13 cop _ _ 13 happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 for for ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 18 obl _ _ 17 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 suffer suffer VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 19 hunger hunger NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 thirst thirst NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 trouble trouble NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 parataxis _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 grief grief NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ _ 29 from from ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 early early ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 32 to to ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 late late ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 35 ; ; PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 36 take take VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 37 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 36 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 save save VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 41 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 40 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ! ! PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | future | you | | me | | | with you | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination | | 2 | **is** | shall | I | | | | | happy *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **suffer** | present | I | hunger and thirst | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer hunger=Stimulus for now=Attribute | | 4 | **is** | present | | | | trouble and grief | evening; morning | | tree rules | | 5 | **take** | infinitive | | | me | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination | | 6 | **save** | infinitive | you *not said here* | me | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 88](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/25/88/) - next →: [sentence 90](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/25/90/) - ↑ back to [Little One-eye, Two-eyes and Three-eyes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/25/)