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title: ‘Turn back, turn back, young maiden fair, Linger not in this murdere… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Turn back, turn back, young maiden fair, Linger not in this murderers’ lair.’ 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 58

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‘Turn back, turn back, young maiden fair, Linger not in this murderers’ lair.’

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** turn back · **To what, where:** young maiden fair, lair

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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:pg2591:24:58
# text = ‘Turn back, turn back, young maiden fair, Linger not in this murderers’ lair.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Turn	turn	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	back	back	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	turn	turn	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
6	back	back	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	maiden	maiden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	fair	fair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	Linger	Linger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	murderers	murderer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	’	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	lair	lair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn back** | imperative | you *not said here* | young maiden fair |  | this murderers's lair |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **turn back** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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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