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title: Soon the woman conceived a deadly hatred for her step-daughter, and… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Soon the woman conceived a deadly hatred for her step-daughter, and knew not how to behave badly enough to her from day to day. Who acts: woman. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Three Little Men in the Wood, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Three Little Men in the Wood, sentence 12

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Soon the woman conceived a deadly hatred for her step-daughter, and knew not how to behave badly enough to her from day to day.

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**Who acts:** woman · **What happens:** conceive, not know, behave · **To what, where:** deadly hatred, woman · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Three Little Men in the Wood. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman), 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:pg11027:24:12
# text = Soon the woman conceived a deadly hatred for her step-daughter, and knew not how to behave badly enough to her from day to day.
1	Soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	conceived	conceive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	deadly	deadly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	hatred	hatred	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
10	step	step	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
17	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	behave	behave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	ccomp	_	_
20	badly	badly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	advmod	_	_
21	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl:unmarked	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **conceive** | past | the woman | a deadly hatred |  |  |  | for woman's step daughter; soon *property* | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hatred=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **know** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **behave** | to-infinitive |  |  | woman |  | day | badly, enough *property* | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: 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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