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title: In the evening she came to a cottage among the hills, and went in to… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: In the evening she came to a cottage among the hills, and went in to rest, for her little feet would carry her no further. Who acts: SNOWDROP, little feet. 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 77

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In the evening she came to a cottage among the hills, and went in to rest, for her little feet would carry her no further.

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**Who acts:** SNOWDROP, little feet · **What happens:** come, go in, rest, carry · **To what, where:** cottage, SNOWDROP

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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 (SNOWDROP, little feet), 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:pg2591:30:77
# text = In the evening she came to a cottage among the hills, and went in to rest, for her little feet would carry her no further.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	cottage	cottage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	among	among	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
15	in	in	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
23	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
25	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	no	no	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	further	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | SNOWDROP |  |  | a cottage | evening | among the hills | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to cottage=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **go in** | past | SNOWDROP *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **rest** | to-infinitive | SNOWDROP *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **carry** | would | SNOWDROP's little feet | SNOWDROP |  |  |  | far *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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