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title: ‘That shall not help you,’ cried she, ‘even if you have got a long w… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘That shall not help you,’ cried she, ‘even if you have got a long way off, you shall still not escape me.’ Who acts: That, you. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Sweetheart Roland, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Sweetheart Roland, sentence 27

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‘That shall not help you,’ cried she, ‘even if you have got a long way off, you shall still not escape me.’

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**Who acts:** That, you · **What happens:** not help, cry, get, not escape · **To what, where:** you, woman, me

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Sweetheart Roland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, 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:pg2591:30:27
# text = ‘That shall not help you,’ cried she, ‘even if you have got a long way off, you shall still not escape me.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
3	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	parataxis	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
9	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	even	even	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
14	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl:unmarked	_	_
21	off	off	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
24	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
25	still	still	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
27	escape	escape	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	parataxis	_	_
28	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **help** | shall | That |  | you |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past |  | woman |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic |
| 3 | **get** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · perfect | you |  |  |  |  | off *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **not** **escape** | shall | you | me |  |  | still |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme i=Initial\_Location |

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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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