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title: So he left her by herself; and though he thought it most likely that… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Sweetheart Roland, sentence 75

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So he left her by herself; and though he thought it most likely that the wild beasts would tear her in pieces, he felt as if a great weight were taken off his heart when he had made up his mind not to kill her but to leave her to her fate, with the chance of someone finding and saving her.

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**Who acts:** sweetheart, wild beasts, mind, SNOWDROP, someone · **What happens:** leave, think, tear, feel, take off, make up · **To what, where:** SNOWDROP, life, pieces, great weight, mind · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (sweetheart, wild beasts, mind, SNOWDROP), 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:pg2591:30:75
# text = So he left her by herself; and though he thought it most likely that the wild beasts would tear her in pieces, he felt as if a great weight were taken off his heart when he had made up his mind not to kill her but to leave her to her fate, with the chance of someone finding and saving her.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	14	advmod	_	_
14	likely	likely	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
19	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	tear	tear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
21	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
27	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
28	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	weight	weight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj:pass	_	_
32	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux:pass	_	_
33	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	ccomp	_	_
34	off	off	ADP	RP	_	33	compound:prt	_	_
35	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
37	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	40	mark	_	_
38	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
39	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
40	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	26	advcl	_	_
41	up	up	ADP	RP	_	40	compound:prt	_	_
42	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
43	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	_
44	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	46	advmod	_	_
45	to	to	PART	TO	_	46	mark	_	_
46	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	xcomp	_	_
47	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	obj	_	_
48	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
49	to	to	PART	TO	_	50	mark	_	_
50	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	conj	_	_
51	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	obj	_	_
52	to	to	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	54	nmod:poss	_	_
54	fate	fate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
56	with	with	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
57	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
58	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	_
59	of	of	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
60	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	58	nmod	_	_
61	finding	find	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	60	acl	_	_
62	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	63	cc	_	_
63	saving	save	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	61	conj	_	_
64	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	63	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past | sweetheart | SNOWDROP |  |  |  | by SNOWDROP | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Theme by herself=Location |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | sweetheart | life |  |  |  | likely *property* | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 3 | **tear** | would | the wild beasts | SNOWDROP |  | pieces |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location she=Theme |
| 4 | **feel** | past | sweetheart |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **take off** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · passive |  | a great weight |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **make up** | past · perfect | sweetheart | sweetheart's mind |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **not** **kill** | to-infinitive | sweetheart's mind *not said here* | SNOWDROP |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 8 | **leave** | to-infinitive | sweetheart's mind *not said here* |  | SNOWDROP |  |  | to SNOWDROP's fate; with the chance of someone | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent she=Recipient with chance=Theme |
| 9 | **find** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 10 | **save** | gerund |  | SNOWDROP |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 11 | **mind** |  | sweetheart |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
| 12 | **fate** |  | SNOWDROP |  |  |  |  |  | nom fate «event transitive»: poss=agent |
| 13 | **chance** |  | someone |  |  |  |  |  | nom chance «state intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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