--- title: Then the servant led the little girl away; but his heart melted when… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics description: Then the servant led the little girl away; but his heart melted when she begged him to spare her life, and he said, "I will not hurt thee, thou pretty child." Who acts: servant, heart, art, thou. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servant, heart, art, thou), 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:pg11027:11:13 # text = Then the servant led the little girl away; but his heart melted when she begged him to spare her life, and he said, "I will not hurt thee, thou pretty child." 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 servant servant NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 led lead VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 away away ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ; ; PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 10 but but CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 11 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 melted melt VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 14 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 16 advmod _ _ 15 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 begged beg VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 17 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 spare spare VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 xcomp _ _ 20 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 27 " " PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 29 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 30 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 31 advmod _ _ 31 hurt hurt VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 ccomp _ _ 32 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 31 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 36 nsubj _ _ 35 pretty pretty ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 . . PUNCT . _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 " " PUNCT '' _ 31 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lead** | past | the servant | the little girl | | | then | away *property* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Theme | | 2 | **melt** | past | art's heart | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **beg** *speech: request* | past | heart | | art | | | | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **spare** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | heart *not said here* | heart's life | | | | | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent life=Asset | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | art | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **not** **hurt** *in a quote* | future | art | thee | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thou=Patient | | 7 | **child** *in a quote* | | thou | | | | | pretty *property* | tree rules | 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:** «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (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 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/11/12/) - next →: [sentence 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/11/14/) - ↑ back to [Little Snow White](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/11/)