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title: She sprang to the door to run away; but on the steps King Grisly-bea… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: She sprang to the door to run away; but on the steps King Grisly-beard overtook her, and brought her back and said, ‘Fear me not! Who acts: princess, beard, Fear. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, King Grisly-beard, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, King Grisly-beard, sentence 65

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She sprang to the door to run away; but on the steps King Grisly-beard overtook her, and brought her back and said, ‘Fear me not!

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**Who acts:** princess, beard, Fear · **What happens:** spring, run away, overtake, bring back, not say · **To what, where:** door, princess · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, King Grisly-beard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, beard, Fear), 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:pg2591:58:65
# text = She sprang to the door to run away; but on the steps King Grisly-beard overtook her, and brought her back and said, ‘Fear me not!
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sprang	spring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
8	away	away	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
14	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	_
15	Grisly	grisly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	beard	beard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	overtook	overtake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
19	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
23	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	back	back	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	Fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
30	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spring** | past | princess |  |  | the door |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to door=Destination |
| 2 | **run away** | to-infinitive | princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **overtake** | past | King's beard | princess |  |  |  | on the steps | tree rules |
| 4 | **bring back** | past | King's beard *not said here* |  | princess |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination |
| 5 | **not** **say** *speech: assert* | past | Fear |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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