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title: Next year one of us will take away your beautiful princess, if you d… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Next year one of us will take away your beautiful princess, if you do not take care. Who acts: you. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Water of Life, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Water of Life, sentence 58

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Next year one of us will take away your beautiful princess, if you do not take care.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** take away, not take · **To what, where:** beautiful princess, care

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Water of Life. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg2591:49:58
# text = Next year one of us will take away your beautiful princess, if you do not take care.
1	Next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	flat	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nmod	_	_
6	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	away	away	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
18	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take away** | future |  | your beautiful princess |  |  | year |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **take** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · do-support | you | care |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 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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