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title: "Be not afraid, brothers, father and mother have left us here, but I… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: "Be not afraid, brothers, father and mother have left us here, but I will lead you home again, only follow me." Who acts: you, brothers, Thumb. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"], with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"\], sentence 46

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"Be not afraid, brothers, father and mother have left us here, but I will lead you home again, only follow me."

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**Who acts:** you, brothers, Thumb · **What happens:** not be, leave, lead, follow · **To what, where:** us, you, Thumb · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"\]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, brothers, Thumb), 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:pg29021:14:46
# text = "Be not afraid, brothers, father and mother have left us here, but I will lead you home again, only follow me."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	ccomp	_	_
13	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	iobj	_	_
14	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	lead	lead	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	home	home	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
22	again	again	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	only	only	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
26	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | afraid *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **leave** *in a quote* | present · perfect | brothers and father and mother |  | us | here |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme |
| 3 | **lead** *in a quote* | future | Thumb | you |  |  | again | home *property* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 4 | **follow** *in a quote* | infinitive | Thumb *not said here* | Thumb |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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:** «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Project Gutenberg book 29021 (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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