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title: ‘Thou shalt stay in thy stable and be well taken care of.’ — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Thou shalt stay in thy stable and be well taken care of.’ Who acts: Thou. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Fox and the Horse, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Fox and the Horse, sentence 17

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‘Thou shalt stay in thy stable and be well taken care of.’

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**Who acts:** Thou · **What happens:** stay, take · **To what, where:** stable, care

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Fox and the Horse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Thou), 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:pg2591:45:17
# text = ‘Thou shalt stay in thy stable and be well taken care of.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nsubj	_	_
3	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	stable	stable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	aux:pass	_	_
10	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
11	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
12	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | shall | Thou |  |  | thy stable |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in stable=Location |
| 2 | **take** | infinitive · passive | Thou *not said here* | care |  |  |  | well *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: care=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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