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title: Then the glass one day answered queen, when she went to consult it a… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the glass one day answered queen, when she went to consult it as usual-- Who acts: glass day, queen. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Little Snow White, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little Snow White, sentence 10

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Then the glass one day answered queen, when she went to consult it as usual--

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**Who acts:** glass day, queen · **What happens:** answer, go, consult · **To what, where:** queen, snow

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This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Little Snow White. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (glass day, queen), 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:pg11027:11:10
# text = Then the glass one day answered queen, when she went to consult it as usual--
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	flat	_	_
5	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	consult	consult	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	usual	usual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | the glass day |  | queen |  | then |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent queen=Eventuality |
| 2 | **go** | past | queen |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **consult** | to-infinitive | queen *not said here* | snow |  |  |  | as usual | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent it=Theme as usual=Value |

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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:** «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (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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