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title: Look, do you see that large cauldron of water which I am obliged to… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Look, do you see that large cauldron of water which I am obliged to keep on the fire! Who acts: you. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Robber Bridegroom, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Robber Bridegroom, sentence 27

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Look, do you see that large cauldron of water which I am obliged to keep on the fire!

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** look, see, oblige, keep · **To what, where:** large cauldron, fire

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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), 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:pg2591:24:27
# text = Look, do you see that large cauldron of water which I am obliged to keep on the fire!
1	Look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
6	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
7	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	cauldron	cauldron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	obliged	oblige	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl:relcl	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **see** | present · do-support | you | that large cauldron of water |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cauldron=Stimulus |
| 3 | **oblige** | present · passive |  | that large cauldron of water |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **keep** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | the fire |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent on fire=Location |

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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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