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title: She was obliged to step over the bodies of the sleepers, who were ly… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: She was obliged to step over the bodies of the sleepers, who were lying close together, and every moment she was filled with renewed dread lest she should awaken them. Who acts: sleepers, woman. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Robber Bridegroom, with its dependency tree and t
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Robber Bridegroom, sentence 46

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She was obliged to step over the bodies of the sleepers, who were lying close together, and every moment she was filled with renewed dread lest she should awaken them.

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**Who acts:** sleepers, woman · **What happens:** oblige, step, lie, fill, renew, awaken · **To what, where:** woman, bodies, moment, sleepers

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Robber Bridegroom. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sleepers, woman), 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:pg2591:24:46
# text = She was obliged to step over the bodies of the sleepers, who were lying close together, and every moment she was filled with renewed dread lest she should awaken them.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	obliged	oblige	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	step	step	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	over	over	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	bodies	body	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	sleepers	sleeper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	_
16	close	close	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	_
17	together	together	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
20	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	det	_	_
21	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	renewed	renew	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	amod	_	_
27	dread	dread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	lest	lest	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
29	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	awaken	awaken	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	_
32	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **oblige** | past · passive |  | woman |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result |
| 2 | **step** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | the bodies of the sleepers |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over body=Trajectory |
| 3 | **lie** | past · progressive | the sleepers |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **fill** | past · passive |  | every moment |  |  |  | with renewed dread | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with dread=Instrument |
| 5 | **renew** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **awaken** | should | woman | sleepers *= sleeper* |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=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:** «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.

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