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title: In the evening she came to a little cottage, and went in there to re… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: In the evening she came to a little cottage, and went in there to rest, for her weary feet would carry her no further. Who acts: White, weary feet. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Little Snow White, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little Snow White, sentence 16

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In the evening she came to a little cottage, and went in there to rest, for her weary feet would carry her no further.

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**Who acts:** White, weary feet · **What happens:** come, go in, rest, carry · **To what, where:** little cottage, White

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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 (White, weary feet), 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:pg11027:11:16
# text = In the evening she came to a little cottage, and went in there to rest, for her weary feet would carry her no further.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	cottage	cottage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
13	in	in	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	weary	weary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
22	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
24	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	no	no	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	further	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | White |  |  | a little cottage | evening |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to cottage=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **go in** | past | White *not said here* |  |  | there |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **rest** | to-infinitive | White *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **carry** | would | White's weary feet | White |  |  |  | far *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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:** «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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