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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Robber Bridegroom, sentence 26

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You think yourself a promised bride, and that your marriage will soon take place, but it is with death that you will keep your marriage feast.

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**Who acts:** You, marriage, your · **What happens:** think, promise, take, be, keep, marry · **To what, where:** yourself, place, marriage feast

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Robber Bridegroom. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, marriage, your), 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:pg2591:24:26
# text = You think yourself a promised bride, and that your marriage will soon take place, but it is with death that you will keep your marriage feast.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	think	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	2	obj	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	promised	promise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
6	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
10	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
12	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	_
14	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
15	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	acl	_	_
26	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | present | You | yourself |  |  |  | a promised bride *obl:unmarked* | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot yourself=Theme |
| 2 | **promise** *speech: promise* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **take** | future | your marriage | place |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | present | marriage |  |  |  |  | with death | tree rules |
| 5 | **keep** | future | you | your marriage feast |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feast=Theme |
| 6 | **marry** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom marriage «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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