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title: So he went out and took the maiden aside, and said: ‘Tonight when th… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So he went out and took the maiden aside, and said: ‘Tonight when the boy is asleep, go to his bed and plunge this knife into his heart, and bring me his heart and tongue, and if you do not do it, you shall lose your life.’ Who acts: cook, boy, you. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Pink, sentence 19

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So he went out and took the maiden aside, and said: ‘Tonight when the boy is asleep, go to his bed and plunge this knife into his heart, and bring me his heart and tongue, and if you do not do it, you shall lose your life.’

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**Who acts:** cook, boy, you · **What happens:** go out, take, say, be, go, plunge · **To what, where:** maiden, bed, knife, heart, me, life · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Pink. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cook, boy, 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:pg2591:31:19
# text = So he went out and took the maiden aside, and said: ‘Tonight when the boy is asleep, go to his bed and plunge this knife into his heart, and bring me his heart and tongue, and if you do not do it, you shall lose your life.’
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	out	out	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	maiden	maiden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	obj	_	_
9	aside	aside	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
14	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Tonight	tonight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	20	mark	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
22	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	ccomp	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	plunge	plunge	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
28	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	29	det	_	_
29	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	into	into	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	advcl	_	_
36	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	_
37	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
43	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	47	mark	_	_
44	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
45	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	47	aux	_	_
46	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	47	advmod	_	_
47	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	52	advcl	_	_
48	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
50	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
51	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	52	aux	_	_
52	lose	lose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
53	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	54	nmod:poss	_	_
54	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	52	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	52	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go out** | past | cook |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **take** | past | cook *not said here* | the maiden |  |  |  | aside *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maiden=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | cook *not said here* |  |  |  | tonight |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **is** | present | the boy |  |  |  |  | asleep *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **go** | infinitive |  |  |  | cook's bed |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **plunge** | present |  | this knife |  | cook's heart |  |  | vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location knife=Theme |
| 7 | **bring** | infinitive |  | cook's heart and tongue | me |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination heart=Theme |
| 8 | **not** **do** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · do-support | you | knife |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
| 9 | **lose** | shall | you | your life |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Eventuality |

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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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