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title: But when she had once begun she did not know how to leave off, and k… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: But when she had once begun she did not know how to leave off, and kept going deeper and deeper amongst the trees looking for some still more beautiful flower. Who acts: cap, trees. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Little Red Cap, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little Red Cap, sentence 20

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But when she had once begun she did not know how to leave off, and kept going deeper and deeper amongst the trees looking for some still more beautiful flower.

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**Who acts:** cap, trees · **What happens:** begin, not know, leave off, keep, go, look · **To what, where:** trees · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Little Red Cap. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cap, trees), 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:pg11027:14:20
# text = But when she had once begun she did not know how to leave off, and kept going deeper and deeper amongst the trees looking for some still more beautiful flower.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	6	advmod	_	_
6	begun	begin	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
14	off	off	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
18	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	xcomp	_	_
19	deeper	deep	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	18	xcomp	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	deeper	deep	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	19	conj	_	_
22	amongst	amongst	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
25	looking	look	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	acl	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
27	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	31	det	_	_
28	still	still	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	30	advmod	_	_
30	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past · perfect | cap |  |  |  |  | once *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **not** **know** | past · do-support | cap |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **leave off** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **keep** | past | cap *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **go** | gerund | cap *not said here* |  |  | the trees |  | deep *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme amongst tree=Location |
| 6 | **look** | gerund | the trees *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for some beautiful flower | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for flower=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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