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title: ‘Then in the meantime I will stay here and wait for you,’ said the g… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Then in the meantime I will stay here and wait for you,’ said the girl, ‘and that no one may recognize me, I will change myself into a red stone landmark.’ Who acts: I, girl, one. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Sweetheart Roland, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Sweetheart Roland, sentence 38

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‘Then in the meantime I will stay here and wait for you,’ said the girl, ‘and that no one may recognize me, I will change myself into a red stone landmark.’

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**Who acts:** I, girl, one · **What happens:** stay, wait, say, recognize, change · **To what, where:** meantime, me, myself, red stone landmark · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (I, girl, one), 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:pg2591:30:38
# text = ‘Then in the meantime I will stay here and wait for you,’ said the girl, ‘and that no one may recognize me, I will change myself into a red stone landmark.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	meantime	meantime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	ccomp	_	_
9	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
16	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
20	‘	‘	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
23	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	24	det	_	_
24	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
25	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	recognize	recognize	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	parataxis	_	_
27	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	conj	_	_
32	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	31	obj	_	_
33	into	into	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
35	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
36	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	landmark	landmark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | future | I |  |  | the meantime; here | then |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in meantime=Location |
| 2 | **wait** | infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for you | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the girl |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **recognize** | may | no one | me |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus |
| 5 | **change** | future | I | myself |  |  |  | into a red stone landmark *result* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent myself=Patient into landmark=Result |

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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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