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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little Snow White, sentence 14

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So he left her there alone; and though he thought it most likely that the wild beasts would tear her to pieces, he felt as if a great weight were taken off his heart when he had made up his mind not to kill her, but leave her to her fate.

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**Who acts:** art, wild beasts, heart · **What happens:** leave, think, tear, feel, take off, make up · **To what, where:** girl, life, great weight, mind, heart, fate · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Little Snow White. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (art, wild beasts, heart), 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:pg11027:11:14
# text = So he left her there alone; and though he thought it most likely that the wild beasts would tear her to pieces, he felt as if a great weight were taken off his heart when he had made up his mind not to kill her, but leave her to her fate.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
6	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	14	advmod	_	_
14	likely	likely	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
19	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	tear	tear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
21	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
27	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
28	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	weight	weight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj:pass	_	_
32	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux:pass	_	_
33	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	ccomp	_	_
34	off	off	ADP	RP	_	33	compound:prt	_	_
35	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
37	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	40	mark	_	_
38	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
39	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
40	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	33	advcl	_	_
41	up	up	ADP	RP	_	40	compound:prt	_	_
42	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
43	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	_
44	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	46	advmod	_	_
45	to	to	PART	TO	_	46	mark	_	_
46	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	advcl	_	_
47	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
49	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
50	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	conj	_	_
51	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	obj	_	_
52	to	to	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	54	nmod:poss	_	_
54	fate	fate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past | art | girl |  | there |  | alone *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | art | life |  |  |  | likely *property* | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 3 | **tear** | would | the wild beasts | girl |  |  |  | to pieces *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent she=Patient to piece=Result |
| 4 | **feel** | past | art |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **take off** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · passive |  | a great weight |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **make up** | past · perfect | art | art's mind |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot |
| 7 | **not** **kill** | to-infinitive | art *not said here* | heart |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 8 | **leave** | infinitive | art *not said here* | heart | heart's fate |  |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Theme to fate=Recipient |
| 9 | **mind** |  | art |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
| 10 | **fate** |  | heart |  |  |  |  |  | nom fate «event transitive»: poss=agent |

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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:** «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.

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