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title: Everything was spruce and neat in the cottage: on the table was spre… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Everything was spruce and neat in the cottage: on the table was spread a white cloth, and there were seven little plates with seven little loaves and seven little glasses with wine in them; and knives and forks laid in order, and by the wall stood seven little beds. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stor
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little Snow White, sentence 17

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Everything was spruce and neat in the cottage: on the table was spread a white cloth, and there were seven little plates with seven little loaves and seven little glasses with wine in them; and knives and forks laid in order, and by the wall stood seven little beds.

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**What happens:** be, spread, lay, stand · **To what, where:** Everything spruce, cottage, white cloth, table, order, seven little beds

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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: 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:pg11027:11:17
# text = Everything was spruce and neat in the cottage: on the table was spread a white cloth, and there were seven little plates with seven little loaves and seven little glasses with wine in them; and knives and forks laid in order, and by the wall stood seven little beds.
1	Everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	3	compound	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	spruce	spruce	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	neat	neat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	cottage	cottage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	spread	spread	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	21	expl	_	_
21	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	aux:pass	_	_
22	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
23	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	plates	plate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
27	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	loaves	loaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	nummod	_	_
31	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	glasses	glass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
39	knives	knife	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	nsubj	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	forks	fork	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	conj	_	_
42	laid	lay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
43	in	in	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
47	by	by	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	_
50	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	conj	_	_
51	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	53	nummod	_	_
52	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
53	beds	bed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	42	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | Everything spruce |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  |  |  |  | the cottage |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **spread** | past · passive |  | a white cloth |  | the table |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: cloth=Theme on table=Destination |
| 4 | **lay** | past · passive |  | Everything spruce |  | order |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in order=Destination |
| 5 | **stand** | past |  | seven little beds |  |  |  | by the wall | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bed=Theme by wall=Destination |

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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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