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title: ‘I dare not shoot at him,’ said the huntsman, ‘for I should kill the… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘I dare not shoot at him,’ said the huntsman, ‘for I should kill the beautiful young lady also.’ Who acts: I. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Four Clever Brothers, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Four Clever Brothers, sentence 42

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‘I dare not shoot at him,’ said the huntsman, ‘for I should kill the beautiful young lady also.’

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** shoot, say, kill · **To what, where:** huntsman, beautiful young lady · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Four Clever Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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:pg2591:43:42
# text = ‘I dare not shoot at him,’ said the huntsman, ‘for I should kill the beautiful young lady also.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	dare	dare	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
5	shoot	shoot	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	huntsman	huntsman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
23	also	also	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shoot** | present | I |  |  |  |  | at king | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent at he=Destination |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  | the huntsman |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **kill** | should | I | the beautiful young lady |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lady=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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