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title: The rogues below thought the Evil One was descending the tree, and r… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: The rogues below thought the Evil One was descending the tree, and ran off, leaving everything behind them. Who acts: rogues, Evil One. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Catherine and Frederick, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Catherine and Frederick, sentence 93

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The rogues below thought the Evil One was descending the tree, and ran off, leaving everything behind them.

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**Who acts:** rogues, Evil One · **What happens:** think, descend, run off, leave · **To what, where:** tree, everything · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Catherine and Frederick. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rogues, Evil One), 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:pg11027:12:93
# text = The rogues below thought the Evil One was descending the tree, and ran off, leaving everything behind them.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	rogues	rogue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	below	below	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Evil	Evil	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	One	One	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	descending	descend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	ccomp	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	off	off	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
18	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	17	obj	_	_
19	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | the rogues |  |  |  |  | below *property* | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **descend** | past · progressive | the Evil One | the tree |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tree=Theme |
| 3 | **run off** | past | the rogues *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **leave** | gerund | the rogues *not said here* | everything |  |  |  | behind branches *= branch* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent everything=Theme behind they=Location |

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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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