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title: Tonight, when the robbers are all asleep, we will flee together. — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Tonight, when the robbers are all asleep, we will flee together. Who acts: robbers, we. 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 32

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Tonight, when the robbers are all asleep, we will flee together.

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**Who acts:** robbers, we · **What happens:** be, flee

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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 (robbers, we), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg2591:960`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2591:24:32
# text = Tonight, when the robbers are all asleep, we will flee together.
1	Tonight	tonight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl:unmarked	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
3	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	robbers	robber	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	all	all	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	advcl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	flee	flee	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
13	together	together	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the robbers |  |  |  |  | all, asleep *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **flee** | future | we |  |  |  | tonight | together *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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