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title: I shall drive there in my carriage at two o’clock in the afternoon f… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I shall drive there in my carriage at two o’clock in the afternoon for three successive days; the first day it will be drawn by four white, the second by four chestnut, and the last by four black horses; but if you fail to keep awake and I find you sleeping, I shall not be set free.’ Who acts: I, fi
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Raven, sentence 11

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I shall drive there in my carriage at two o’clock in the afternoon for three successive days; the first day it will be drawn by four white, the second by four chestnut, and the last by four black horses; but if you fail to keep awake and I find you sleeping, I shall not be set free.’

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**Who acts:** I, first day, you · **What happens:** drive, draw, fail, not keep, find, sleep · **To what, where:** carriage, o’clock, you

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Raven. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, first day, 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:pg2591:47:11
# text = I shall drive there in my carriage at two o’clock in the afternoon for three successive days; the first day it will be drawn by four white, the second by four chestnut, and the last by four black horses; but if you fail to keep awake and I find you sleeping, I shall not be set free.’
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	drive	drive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	carriage	carriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	o’clock	o'clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
16	successive	successive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	21	amod	_	_
21	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	drawn	draw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl:relcl	_	_
26	by	by	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
28	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	21	conj	_	_
32	by	by	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	34	nummod	_	_
34	chestnut	chestnut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	conj	_	_
39	by	by	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	42	nummod	_	_
41	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	62	punct	_	_
44	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	62	cc	_	_
45	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	47	mark	_	_
46	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
47	fail	fail	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	62	advcl	_	_
48	to	to	PART	TO	_	49	mark	_	_
49	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	xcomp	_	_
50	awake	awake	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	xcomp	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
52	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	53	nsubj	_	_
53	find	find	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	47	conj	_	_
54	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	53	obj	_	_
55	sleeping	sleep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	53	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
57	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	62	nsubj	_	_
58	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	62	aux	_	_
59	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	61	advmod	_	_
60	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	61	cop	_	_
61	set	set	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	62	amod	_	_
62	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drive** | shall | I |  |  | my carriage; there | afternoon; day | at two o’clock | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent in carriage=Destination at o'clock=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **draw** | future · passive | the first day *not said here* | o’clock *= o'clock* |  |  |  | by four white | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **fail** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **not** **keep** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | awake *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **find** | present | I | you |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent you=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 6 | **sleep** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **not** **is** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | set *property* | tree rules |

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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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