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title: Catherine stood musing for a while, and at last said to her husband,… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Catherine stood musing for a while, and at last said to her husband, ‘Hark ye, Frederick, we will soon get the gold back: let us run after the thieves.’ Who acts: Catherine, we, us. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Frederick and Catherine, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Frederick and Catherine, sentence 42

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Catherine stood musing for a while, and at last said to her husband, ‘Hark ye, Frederick, we will soon get the gold back: let us run after the thieves.’

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**Who acts:** Catherine, we, us · **What happens:** stand, muse, say, get back, let, run · **To what, where:** last, gold, us · **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 (Catherine, we, us), 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:pg2591:29:42
# text = Catherine stood musing for a while, and at last said to her husband, ‘Hark ye, Frederick, we will soon get the gold back: let us run after the thieves.’
1	Catherine	Catherine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	musing	muse	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	xcomp	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	last	last	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Hark	Hark	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	ccomp	_	_
18	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	17	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	Frederick	Frederick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
22	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	25	advmod	_	_
25	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	back	back	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
30	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
31	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	xcomp	_	_
33	after	after	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	thieves	thief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	30	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | Catherine |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **muse** | gerund | Catherine *not said here* |  |  |  | while |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Catherine *not said here* |  |  | last |  | to Catherine's husband | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to husband=Experiencer clause=Topic |
| 4 | **get back** | future | we | the gold |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer gold=Stimulus |
| 5 | **let** | infinitive |  | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **run** | infinitive | us *not said here* |  |  |  | after the thieves |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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