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title: Presently in came the masters of the cottage, who were seven little… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Presently in came the masters of the cottage, who were seven little dwarfs that lived among the mountains, and dug and searched about for gold. Who acts: cottage, seven little dwarfs. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Little Snow White, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little Snow White, sentence 20

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Presently in came the masters of the cottage, who were seven little dwarfs that lived among the mountains, and dug and searched about for gold.

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**Who acts:** cottage, seven little dwarfs · **What happens:** come, be, live, dig, search · **To what, where:** masters, seven little dwarfs, mountains

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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 (cottage, seven little dwarfs), 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:pg11027:11:20
# text = Presently in came the masters of the cottage, who were seven little dwarfs that lived among the mountains, and dug and searched about for gold.
1	Presently	presently	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	masters	master	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	cottage	cottage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
13	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	dwarfs	dwarf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	appos	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	among	among	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	dug	dig	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	searched	search	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
25	about	about	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past |  | the masters of the cottage |  |  |  | presently *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location master=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past | the cottage | seven little dwarfs |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **live** | past | seven little dwarfs |  |  | the mountains |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among mountain=Location |
| 4 | **dig** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **search** | past |  |  |  |  |  | for gold; about *property* | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for gold=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:** «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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