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title: I shall put them into a box and bury them in the garden; but take ca… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I shall put them into a box and bury them in the garden; but take care that you never go near or meddle with them.’ Who acts: I, care. 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 31

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I shall put them into a box and bury them in the garden; but take care that you never go near or meddle with them.’

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**Who acts:** I, care · **What happens:** put, bury, take, not go, meddle · **To what, where:** buttons, box, garden, care

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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 (I, care), 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:pg2591:29:31
# text = I shall put them into a box and bury them in the garden; but take care that you never go near or meddle with them.’
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	bury	bury	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
17	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
22	near	near	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	meddle	meddle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | shall | I | buttons *= button* |  | a box |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Goal |
| 2 | **bury** | infinitive | I *not said here* | buttons *= button* |  | the garden |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in garden=Destination |
| 3 | **take** | infinitive | I *not said here* | care |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **go** | present | care |  |  |  |  | near *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **meddle** | infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with buttons *= button* | tree rules |

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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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