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title: "Softly, softly; be not too sure. — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: "Softly, softly; be not too sure. Who acts: you. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 151

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"Softly, softly; be not too sure.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** not be

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This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg11027:9:151
# text = "Softly, softly; be not too sure.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Softly	softly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	softly	softly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
8	too	too	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | softly, sure *property* | 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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