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title: In the morning Snow-White told them all her story, and they pitied h… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: In the morning Snow-White told them all her story, and they pitied her, and said if she would keep all things in order, and cook and wash, and knit and spin for them, she might stay where she was, and they would take good care of her. Who acts: White, beds. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by J
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little Snow White, sentence 33

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In the morning Snow-White told them all her story, and they pitied her, and said if she would keep all things in order, and cook and wash, and knit and spin for them, she might stay where she was, and they would take good care of her.

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**Who acts:** White, beds · **What happens:** tell, pity, say, keep, cook, wash · **To what, where:** story, beds, morning Snow, White, things, order · **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 (White, beds), 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:pg11027:11:33
# text = In the morning Snow-White told them all her story, and they pitied her, and said if she would keep all things in order, and cook and wash, and knit and spin for them, she might stay where she was, and they would take good care of her.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	White	White	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	iobj	_	_
9	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	11	det:predet	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	pitied	pity	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
16	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
20	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	ccomp	_	_
24	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	det	_	_
25	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	cook	cook	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	wash	wash	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	knit	knit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	spin	spin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	conj	_	_
38	for	for	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
41	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
42	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
43	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	conj	_	_
44	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	46	advmod	_	_
45	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
46	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
49	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj	_	_
50	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	51	aux	_	_
51	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	parataxis	_	_
52	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
53	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obj	_	_
54	of	of	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | White | White's story | beds *= bed* | the morning Snow |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient story=Topic |
| 2 | **pity** | past | beds *= bed* | White |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | beds *= bed* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **keep** *a condition, not said to happen* | would | White | all things |  | order |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent thing=Theme in order=Location |
| 5 | **cook** | infinitive | White *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **wash** | infinitive | White *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **knit** | infinitive | White *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **spin** | infinitive | White *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for beds *= bed* | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for they=Beneficiary |
| 9 | **stay** | might | White |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 10 | **be** | past | White |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 11 | **take** | would | beds *= bed* | good care of White |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme |
| 12 | **care** |  | White |  |  |  |  |  | nom care «act intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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