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title: ‘Take us out, take us out, or alas! we shall be burnt to a cinder; w… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Take us out, take us out, or alas! we shall be burnt to a cinder; we were baked through long ago,’ cried the loaves as before. Who acts: you. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Mother Holle, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Mother Holle, sentence 36

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‘Take us out, take us out, or alas! we shall be burnt to a cinder; we were baked through long ago,’ cried the loaves as before.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** take out, burnt, bake, cry · **To what, where:** us, we, loaves

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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), 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:pg2591:22:36
# text = ‘Take us out, take us out, or alas! we shall be burnt to a cinder; we were baked through long ago,’ cried the loaves as before.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	alas	ala	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
13	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	burnt	burnt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	cinder	cinder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
21	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	baked	bake	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
24	through	through	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	26	advmod	_	_
26	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	_
29	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	loaves	loaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	_
32	as	as	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	before	before	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take out** | imperative | you *not said here* | us |  |  |  | alas *obl* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme |
| 2 | **take out** | infinitive | you *not said here* | us |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme |
| 3 | **burnt** | shall · passive |  | we |  |  |  | to a cinder | tree rules |
| 4 | **bake** | past · passive |  | we |  |  |  | ago *property* | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product |
| 5 | **cry** *speech: express* | past |  | the loaves |  |  |  | before *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent loaf=Topic |

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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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