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title: They did not, however, leave her, and she threw down her girdle, but… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: They did not, however, leave her, and she threw down her girdle, but in vain! and even her rich dress did not make them desist. Who acts: huntsmen, sister, rich dress. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Six Swans, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Six Swans, sentence 47

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They did not, however, leave her, and she threw down her girdle, but in vain! and even her rich dress did not make them desist.

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**Who acts:** huntsmen, sister, rich dress · **What happens:** not leave, throw down, not make, not desist · **To what, where:** sister, girdle, huntsmen

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This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Six Swans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (huntsmen, sister, rich dress), 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:pg11027:19:47
# text = They did not, however, leave her, and she threw down her girdle, but in vain! and even her rich dress did not make them desist.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	however	however	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
13	down	down	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	girdle	girdle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	vain	vain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
22	even	even	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
23	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
26	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
28	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
29	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	desist	desist	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **leave** | past · do-support | huntsmen *= huntsman* | sister |  |  |  | however *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 2 | **throw down** | past | sister | sister's girdle |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girdle=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **make** | past · do-support | sister's rich dress | huntsmen *= huntsman* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **desist** | infinitive | huntsmen *= huntsman* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn refrain-69 «NP V»: agent=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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