--- title: ‘I had rather die than place you in such great danger as you must me… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: ‘I had rather die than place you in such great danger as you must meet with in your journey.’ Who acts: I, you, your. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Water of Life, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/49/9/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Grimms' Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/) / [The Water of Life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/49/) / 9 # Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Water of Life, sentence 9 ‘I had rather die than place you in such great danger as you must meet with in your journey.’ **Who acts:** I, you, your · **What happens:** die, meet, journey · **To what, where:** you 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 (I, you, your), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2591:49:9 # text = ‘I had rather die than place you in such great danger as you must meet with in your journey.’ 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 3 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 rather rather ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 die die VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 than than ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 8 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 obl:unmarked _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 11 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 danger danger NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 13 as as SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 14 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 15 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 meet meet VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 advcl _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 journey journey NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **die** | past | I | you | | | | than place; in such great danger | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in danger=Attribute | | 2 | **meet** | must | you | | | | | with your journey | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with journey=Co-Agent | | 3 | **journey** | | your | | | | | | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/49/8/) - next →: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/49/10/) - ↑ back to [The Water of Life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/49/)