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title: She did not touch it; and the next morning she went off again withou… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: She did not touch it; and the next morning she went off again without taking the meagre breakfast which was left out for her. Who acts: sister. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Little One-eye, Two-eyes and Three-eyes, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little One-eye, Two-eyes and Three-eyes, sentence 23

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She did not touch it; and the next morning she went off again without taking the meagre breakfast which was left out for her.

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**Who acts:** sister · **What happens:** not touch, go off, take, leave out · **To what, where:** goat, meagre breakfast

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This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Little One-eye, Two-eyes and Three-eyes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sister), 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:pg11027:25:23
# text = She did not touch it; and the next morning she went off again without taking the meagre breakfast which was left out for her.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	touch	touch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl:unmarked	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
13	off	off	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	again	again	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
15	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	meagre	meagre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl:relcl	_	_
23	out	out	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **touch** | past · do-support | sister | goat |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **go off** | past | sister |  |  |  | again; morning |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **take** | gerund | sister *not said here* | the meagre breakfast |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breakfast=Theme |
| 4 | **leave out** | past · passive |  | the meagre breakfast |  |  |  | for sister | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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