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title: It would have been all over with the poor girl if she had not just t… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It would have been all over with the poor girl if she had not just then been standing in a corner, and heard everything. Who acts: stepsister, woman. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Sweetheart Roland, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Sweetheart Roland, sentence 6

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It would have been all over with the poor girl if she had not just then been standing in a corner, and heard everything.

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**Who acts:** stepsister, woman · **What happens:** be, not stand, hear · **To what, where:** poor girl, corner, everything

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Sweetheart Roland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stepsister, 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:pg2591:30:6
# text = It would have been all over with the poor girl if she had not just then been standing in a corner, and heard everything.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux	_	_
4	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	cop	_	_
5	all	all	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	over	over	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
15	just	just	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
16	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
17	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	aux	_	_
18	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	acl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
25	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would · perfect | stepsister |  |  |  |  | with the poor girl; all, over *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **stand** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect · progressive | woman | the poor girl *not said here* |  | a corner | then |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent girl=Theme in corner=Destination |
| 3 | **hear** | past |  | everything |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus |

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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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