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title: How can you bring your heart to leave my children all alone in the w… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: How can you bring your heart to leave my children all alone in the wood, for the wild beasts will soon come and tear them to pieces?" Who acts: you, wild beasts. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Hansel and Grethel, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Hansel and Grethel, sentence 6

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How can you bring your heart to leave my children all alone in the wood, for the wild beasts will soon come and tear them to pieces?"

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**Who acts:** you, wild beasts · **What happens:** bring, leave, come, tear · **To what, where:** heart, children, wood

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This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Hansel and Grethel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, wild beasts), 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:pg11027:8:6
# text = How can you bring your heart to leave my children all alone in the wood, for the wild beasts will soon come and tear them to pieces?"
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
9	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	all	all	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
17	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
21	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	23	advmod	_	_
23	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	tear	tear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	_
26	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | can | you | your heart |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent heart=Theme |
| 2 | **leave** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | my children |  | the wood |  | alone *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent child=Theme in wood=Location |
| 3 | **come** | future | the wild beasts |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **tear** | infinitive | the wild beasts *not said here* | children *= child* |  |  |  | to pieces *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent they=Patient to piece=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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