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title: ‘My stars!’ said she, ‘what shall I do to keep Frederick from seeing… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘My stars!’ said she, ‘what shall I do to keep Frederick from seeing all this slopping about?’ Who acts: stars, I. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Frederick and Catherine, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Frederick and Catherine, sentence 17

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‘My stars!’ said she, ‘what shall I do to keep Frederick from seeing all this slopping about?’

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**Who acts:** stars, I · **What happens:** say, do, keep, see, slop · **To what, where:** Frederick, this · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Frederick and Catherine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stars, I), 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:pg2591:29:17
# text = ‘My stars!’ said she, ‘what shall I do to keep Frederick from seeing all this slopping about?’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	13	obj	_	_
11	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	Frederick	Frederick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
19	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	20	det:predet	_	_
20	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	obj	_	_
21	slopping	slop	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	conj	_	_
22	about	about	ADP	IN	_	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | My stars |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **do** | shall | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **keep** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | Frederick |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent frederick=Theme |
| 4 | **see** | gerund | I *not said here* | this |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus |
| 5 | **slop** | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |

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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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