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title: But he said: ‘You have dipped your finger into the water, this time… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But he said: ‘You have dipped your finger into the water, this time it may pass, but take care you do not again let anything go in.’ Who acts: boy, You, time, anything. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Iron Hans, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 44

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But he said: ‘You have dipped your finger into the water, this time it may pass, but take care you do not again let anything go in.’

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**Who acts:** boy, You, time, anything · **What happens:** say, dip, pass, take, not let, go in · **To what, where:** finger, water, care, anything · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Iron Hans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, You, time, anything), 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:pg2591:59:44
# text = But he said: ‘You have dipped your finger into the water, this time it may pass, but take care you do not again let anything go in.’
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
5	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	dipped	dip	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
9	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	finger	finger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
23	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
25	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
27	again	again	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	parataxis	_	_
29	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	28	obj	_	_
30	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
31	in	in	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | boy |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **dip** | present · perfect | You | your finger |  | the water |  |  | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent finger=Theme into water=Destination |
| 3 | **pass** | may | this time |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **take** | infinitive |  | care |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **let** | present · do-support | you | anything |  |  | again |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **go in** | infinitive | anything *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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