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title: Of all the ladies in the land, Who is fairest? tell me who?" — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Of all the ladies in the land, Who is fairest? tell me who?" Who acts: ladies, you. 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 37

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Of all the ladies in the land, Who is fairest? tell me who?"

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**Who acts:** ladies, you · **What happens:** be, tell · **To what, where:** me · **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 (ladies, you), 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:pg11027:11:37
# text = Of all the ladies in the land, Who is fairest? tell me who?"
1	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	4	det:predet	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	fairest	fair	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
13	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	iobj	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | all ladies in the land |  |  |  |  | fair *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* |  | me |  |  | of all ladies in the land | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |

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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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