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title: ‘God be with you,’ he cried again, and again they paused and looked… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘God be with you,’ he cried again, and again they paused and looked about, but seeing no one went back to their fighting. Who acts: God, robbers, seeing. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Raven, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Raven, sentence 75

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‘God be with you,’ he cried again, and again they paused and looked about, but seeing no one went back to their fighting.

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**Who acts:** God, robbers, seeing · **What happens:** be, cry, pause, look, see, go back · **To what, where:** one

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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 (God, robbers, seeing), 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:pg2591:47:75
# text = ‘God be with you,’ he cried again, and again they paused and looked about, but seeing no one went back to their fighting.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	again	again	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	again	again	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	paused	pause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
18	about	about	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	csubj	_	_
22	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	23	det	_	_
23	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
25	back	back	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	fighting	fighting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | with you | tree rules |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | God |  |  |  | again |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **pause** | past | robbers *= robber* |  |  |  | again |  | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **look** | past | robbers *= robber* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **see** | gerund |  | no one |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus |
| 6 | **go back** | past | seeing |  |  |  |  | to robbers's fighting *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to fighting=Result |
| 7 | **fight** |  | robbers *= robber* |  |  |  |  |  | nom fighting «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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