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title: When I lift my tail up quite high, all is going well, and you must c… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When I lift my tail up quite high, all is going well, and you must charge; but if I let it hang down, run away as fast as you can.’ Who acts: I, you, tail. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Willow-wren and the Bear, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Willow-wren and the Bear, sentence 25

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When I lift my tail up quite high, all is going well, and you must charge; but if I let it hang down, run away as fast as you can.’

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**Who acts:** I, you, tail · **What happens:** lift, go, charge, let, hang down, run away · **To what, where:** tail

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Willow-wren and the Bear. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, tail), 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:pg2591:12:25
# text = When I lift my tail up quite high, all is going well, and you must charge; but if I let it hang down, run away as fast as you can.’
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	lift	lift	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	up	up	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
7	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	advmod	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
13	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	charge	charge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	let	let	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	hang	hang	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	down	down	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
29	away	away	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	as	as	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	28	advmod	_	_
32	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
33	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lift** | present | I | my tail |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | present · progressive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **charge** | must | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **let** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | I | tail |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **hang down** | infinitive | tail *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **run away** | infinitive | tail *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away, fast *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:** «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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