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title: ‘Back again! back again! look to the shoe! — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Back again! back again! look to the shoe! Who acts: you. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Miser in the Bush, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Miser in the Bush, sentence 131

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‘Back again! back again! look to the shoe!

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** look

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Miser in the Bush. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg2591:33:131
# text = ‘Back again! back again! look to the shoe!
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Back	back	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	again	again	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
5	back	back	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	again	again	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
8	look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	shoe	shoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | again | to the shoe | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to shoe=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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