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title: The wicked stepmother, however, on whose account the children had wa… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: The wicked stepmother, however, on whose account the children had wandered forth into the world, had supposed that long ago the Sister had been torn into pieces by the wild beasts, and the little Brother in his Fawn's shape hunted to death by the hunters. Who acts: wild beasts, little Brother. A sen
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Little Brother and Sister, sentence 50

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The wicked stepmother, however, on whose account the children had wandered forth into the world, had supposed that long ago the Sister had been torn into pieces by the wild beasts, and the little Brother in his Fawn's shape hunted to death by the hunters.

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**Who acts:** wild beasts, little Brother · **What happens:** wander, suppose, tear, hunt · **To what, where:** wicked stepmother, account, Sister, pieces

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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 (wild beasts, little Brother), 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:pg11027:7:50
# text = The wicked stepmother, however, on whose account the children had wandered forth into the world, had supposed that long ago the Sister had been torn into pieces by the wild beasts, and the little Brother in his Fawn's shape hunted to death by the hunters.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	however	however	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	wandered	wander	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
14	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	supposed	suppose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	conj	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
22	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	23	advmod	_	_
23	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	torn	tear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	advcl	_	_
29	into	into	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
31	by	by	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	Brother	Brother	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	nsubj	_	_
40	in	in	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
41	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
42	Fawn	Fawn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	's	's	PART	POS	_	42	case	_	_
44	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	_
45	hunted	hunt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
46	to	to	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	_
48	by	by	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	hunters	hunter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wander** | past · perfect · passive |  | the wicked stepmother |  | account |  | into the world; forth, however *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **suppose** | past · perfect |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **tear** | past · perfect · passive | the wild beasts | the Sister |  |  |  | into pieces *result*; ago *property* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent subject=Patient into piece=Result |
| 4 | **hunt** | past | the little Brother in King's shape |  |  |  |  | to death; by the hunters | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent by hunter=Location |

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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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