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title: But this queen died; and the king soon married another wife, who was… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: But this queen died; and the king soon married another wife, who was very beautiful, but so proud that she could not bear to think that any one could surpass her. Who acts: queen, king, wife, one. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Little Snow White, with its dependency tree and t
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little Snow White, sentence 4

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But this queen died; and the king soon married another wife, who was very beautiful, but so proud that she could not bear to think that any one could surpass her.

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**Who acts:** queen, king, wife, one · **What happens:** die, marry, be, not bear, think, surpass · **To what, where:** wife, queen · **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, king, wife, one), 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:pg11027:11:4
# text = But this queen died; and the king soon married another wife, who was very beautiful, but so proud that she could not bear to think that any one could surpass her.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
10	married	marry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	det	_	_
12	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	very	very	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	bear	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
29	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
30	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	31	det	_	_
31	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
32	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	surpass	surpass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	ccomp	_	_
34	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** | past | this queen |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **marry** | past | the king | another wife |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | past | another wife |  |  |  |  | beautiful *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **bear** | could | queen |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **think** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | queen *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 6 | **surpass** | could | any one | queen |  |  |  |  | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot she=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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