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title: You must be very careful, however, to make my bed in the right way,… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: You must be very careful, however, to make my bed in the right way, for I wish you always to shake it thoroughly, so that the feathers fly about; then they say, down there in the world, that it is snowing; for I am Mother Holle.’ Who acts: You, I, feathers, it. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Mother Holle, sentence 17

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You must be very careful, however, to make my bed in the right way, for I wish you always to shake it thoroughly, so that the feathers fly about; then they say, down there in the world, that it is snowing; for I am Mother Holle.’

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**Who acts:** You, I, feathers, it · **What happens:** be, make, wish, shake, fly, say · **To what, where:** bed, right way, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» 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, I, feathers, it), 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:pg2591:22:17
# text = You must be very careful, however, to make my bed in the right way, for I wish you always to shake it thoroughly, so that the feathers fly about; then they say, down there in the world, that it is snowing; for I am Mother Holle.’
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	careful	careful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	however	however	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
11	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	wish	wish	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	iobj	_	_
22	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	24	advmod	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	shake	shake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	thoroughly	thoroughly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	32	mark	_	_
29	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	fixed	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
32	fly	fly	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
33	about	about	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	_
35	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	37	advmod	_	_
36	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	down	down	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
40	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	37	ccomp	_	_
41	in	in	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
45	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	48	mark	_	_
46	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
47	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	48	aux	_	_
48	snowing	snow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	37	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	53	punct	_	_
50	for	for	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
51	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	53	nsubj	_	_
52	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	53	cop	_	_
53	Mother	Mother	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
54	Holle	Holle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	53	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	53	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | must | You |  |  |  |  | careful *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | to-infinitive | You *not said here* | my bed |  | the right way |  | however *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bed=Product |
| 3 | **wish** | present | I |  | you |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **shake** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | bed |  |  |  | always, thoroughly *property* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 5 | **fly** | present | the feathers |  |  |  |  | about *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | feathers *= feather* |  |  |  | then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **snow** | present · progressive | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» |
| 8 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | for Mother | 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:** «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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