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title: The Sister wept very much and told him, "Soon will they kill you, an… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Little Brother and Sister, sentence 39

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The Sister wept very much and told him, "Soon will they kill you, and I shall be here alone in this forest, forsaken by all the world: I cannot let you go."

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**Who acts:** Sister, huntsmen, King · **What happens:** weep, tell, kill, be, forsake, not let · **To what, where:** forest, King · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Little Brother and Sister. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sister, huntsmen, King), 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:pg11027:7:39
# text = The Sister wept very much and told him, "Soon will they kill you, and I shall be here alone in this forest, forsaken by all the world: I cannot let you go."
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	wept	weep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	much	much	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	_
12	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	cop	_	_
21	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
22	alone	alone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	fixed	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	det	_	_
25	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	forsaken	forsake	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	acl	_	_
28	by	by	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	31	det:predet	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	36	punct	_	_
33	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
34	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	36	advmod	_	_
36	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
37	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	36	obj	_	_
38	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	36	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **weep** | past | the Sister |  |  | this forest |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | the Sister *not said here* |  | King |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 3 | **kill** *in a quote* | future | huntsmen *= huntsman* | King |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | shall | the Sister *= sister* |  |  |  |  | here *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **forsake** *in a quote* | participle |  | this forest *not said here* |  |  |  | by all world | tree rules |
| 6 | **not** **let** *in a quote* | can | the Sister *= sister* | King |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive | King *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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