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title: But this time she kept away too long, and stayed beyond the half-hou… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But this time she kept away too long, and stayed beyond the half-hour; so she had not time to take off her fine dress, and threw her fur mantle over it, and in her haste did not blacken herself all over with soot, but left one of her fingers white. Who acts: dance. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 215

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But this time she kept away too long, and stayed beyond the half-hour; so she had not time to take off her fine dress, and threw her fur mantle over it, and in her haste did not blacken herself all over with soot, but left one of her fingers white.

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**Who acts:** dance · **What happens:** keep away, stay, have, take off, throw, not blacken · **To what, where:** fine dress, fur mantle, room, dance, haste

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Iron Hans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dance), 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:pg2591:59:215
# text = But this time she kept away too long, and stayed beyond the half-hour; so she had not time to take off her fine dress, and threw her fur mantle over it, and in her haste did not blacken herself all over with soot, but left one of her fingers white.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	away	away	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	too	too	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	stayed	stay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
12	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	acl	_	_
25	off	off	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
26	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
32	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
33	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	mantle	mantle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
35	over	over	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	haste	haste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	_
42	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
43	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	44	advmod	_	_
44	blacken	blacken	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
45	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	44	obj	_	_
46	all	all	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
47	over	over	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
48	with	with	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	soot	soot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
51	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
52	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
53	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	57	nummod	_	_
54	of	of	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	56	nmod:poss	_	_
56	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	53	nmod	_	_
57	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep away** | past | dance |  |  |  | time | away, long *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **stay** | past | dance *not said here* |  |  |  | hour |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | past | dance |  |  |  | time |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **take off** | to-infinitive | dance *not said here* | dance's fine dress |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dress=Theme |
| 5 | **throw** | past | dance *not said here* | dance's fur mantle |  | room |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent mantle=Theme over it=Destination |
| 6 | **not** **blacken** | past · do-support |  | dance |  | dance's haste |  | with soot; over *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent herself=Patient with soot=Instrument |
| 7 | **leave** | past | dance *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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