--- title: The children, however, were sitting outside the forest, and when the… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: The children, however, were sitting outside the forest, and when they saw from afar the three servants running, Lina said to Fundevogel: ‘Never leave me, and I will never leave you.’ Who acts: children, servants, afar three servants, Lina. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, 3. How P --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/18/108/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Grimms' Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/) / [3. How Partlet Died and Was Buried, an…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/18/) / 108 # Grimms' Fairy Tales, 3. How Partlet Died and Was Buried, and How Chanticleer Died of Grief, sentence 108 The children, however, were sitting outside the forest, and when they saw from afar the three servants running, Lina said to Fundevogel: ‘Never leave me, and I will never leave you.’ **Who acts:** children, servants, afar three servants, Lina, I · **What happens:** sit, see, run, say, not leave · **To what, where:** forest, afar three servants, Fundevogel, me, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, 3. How Partlet Died and Was Buried, and How Chanticleer Died of Grief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, servants, afar three servants, Lina), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2591:18:108 # text = The children, however, were sitting outside the forest, and when they saw from afar the three servants running, Lina said to Fundevogel: ‘Never leave me, and I will never leave you.’ 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 however however ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 sitting sit VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 8 outside outside ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 forest forest NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 13 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 15 advmod _ _ 14 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 16 from from ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 17 afar afar ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 20 nummod _ _ 20 servants servant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 21 running run VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 20 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 Lina Lina PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 25 to to ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 Fundevogel Fundevogel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 : : PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 28 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 Never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 30 advmod _ _ 30 leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 ccomp _ _ 31 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 34 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 35 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 36 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 37 advmod _ _ 37 leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 conj _ _ 38 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 37 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sit** | past · progressive | the children | | | the forest | | however *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent outside forest=Location | | 2 | **see** | past | servants *= servant* | | | the afar three servants | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **run** | gerund | the afar three servants *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Lina | | Fundevogel | | | | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to fundevogel=Experiencer clause=Topic | | 5 | **not** **leave** | infinitive | | me | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | | 6 | **not** **leave** | future | I | you | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | 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. **Text:** «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/18/107/) - next →: [sentence 109](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/18/109/) - ↑ back to [3. 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