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title: The Sister, finding she could not prevent him, opened the door, with… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: The Sister, finding she could not prevent him, opened the door, with a heavy heart, and the Fawn jumped out, quite delighted, into the forest. Who acts: Sister, Fawn. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Little Brother and Sister, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Little Brother and Sister, sentence 41

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The Sister, finding she could not prevent him, opened the door, with a heavy heart, and the Fawn jumped out, quite delighted, into the forest.

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**Who acts:** Sister, Fawn · **What happens:** find, not prevent, open, jump out · **To what, where:** King, door, forest · **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, Fawn), 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:pg11027:7:41
# text = The Sister, finding she could not prevent him, opened the door, with a heavy heart, and the Fawn jumped out, quite delighted, into the forest.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	finding	find	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	prevent	prevent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
11	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Fawn	Fawn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	jumped	jump	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
24	out	out	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	delighted	delighted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	into	into	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | gerund | the Sister *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **prevent** | could | Sister | King |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer he=Theme |
| 3 | **open** | past | the Sister | the door |  |  |  | with a heavy heart | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent door=Patient with heart=Instrument |
| 4 | **jump out** | past | the Fawn |  |  |  |  | into the forest *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into forest=Result |

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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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