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title: Do not forget that we have a christening today!’ and running after h… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Do not forget that we have a christening today!’ and running after him he took him by the sleeve, but was also held fast to it. Who acts: you, we, procession. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Goose, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Goose, sentence 38

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Do not forget that we have a christening today!’ and running after him he took him by the sleeve, but was also held fast to it.

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**Who acts:** you, we, procession · **What happens:** not forget, have, run, take, hold · **To what, where:** christening, parson, sleeve · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Goose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, we, procession), 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:pg2591:48:38
# text = Do not forget that we have a christening today!’ and running after him he took him by the sleeve, but was also held fast to it.
1	Do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	forget	forget	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	christening	christening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
14	after	after	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	sleeve	sleeve	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
25	also	also	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	conj	_	_
27	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	26	advmod	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **forget** | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | present | we | a christening |  |  | today |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent christening=Patient |
| 3 | **run** | gerund | procession *not said here* |  |  |  | after procession |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **take** | past | procession |  | parson |  |  | by the sleeve | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination |
| 5 | **hold** | past · passive | procession *not said here* |  | sleeve |  |  | fast *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V» |

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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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