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title: When the queen heard this she turned pale with rage and envy; and ca… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: When the queen heard this she turned pale with rage and envy; and calling to one of her servants said, "Take Snow-White away into the wide wood, that I may never see her more." Who acts: queen, calling. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Little Snow White, with its dependency tree
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little Snow White, sentence 12

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When the queen heard this she turned pale with rage and envy; and calling to one of her servants said, "Take Snow-White away into the wide wood, that I may never see her more."

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**Who acts:** queen, calling · **What happens:** hear, turn, call, say, take, not see · **To what, where:** this, one, Snow White, wide wood, White · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (queen, calling), 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:pg11027:11:12
# text = When the queen heard this she turned pale with rage and envy; and calling to one of her servants said, "Take Snow-White away into the wide wood, that I may never see her more."
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	obj	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
8	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	rage	rage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	envy	envy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
15	calling	call	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	csubj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
21	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	Take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	ccomp	_	_
25	Snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	White	White	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	away	away	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
29	into	into	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
34	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
35	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
36	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
37	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	38	advmod	_	_
38	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	conj	_	_
39	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obj	_	_
40	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	38	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | the queen | this |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus |
| 2 | **turn** | past | queen |  |  |  |  | pale *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **call** | gerund |  |  | one of queen's servants |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to one=Recipient |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | calling |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **take** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | Snow White |  | the wide wood |  | away *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent white=Theme into wood=Destination |
| 6 | **not** **see** *in a quote* | may | calling | White |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |

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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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