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title: In the evening the seven dwarfs returned; and I need not say how gri… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little Snow White, sentence 50

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In the evening the seven dwarfs returned; and I need not say how grieved they were to see their faithful Snow-White stretched upon the ground motionless, as if she were quite dead.

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**Who acts:** seven dwarfs, I, dwarfs, White · **What happens:** return, not say, grieve, see, stretch, be · **To what, where:** faithful Snow · **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 (seven dwarfs, I, dwarfs, White), 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:pg11027:11:50
# text = In the evening the seven dwarfs returned; and I need not say how grieved they were to see their faithful Snow-White stretched upon the ground motionless, as if she were quite dead.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	dwarfs	dwarf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	need	need	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
14	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
15	grieved	grieve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	advcl	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	faithful	faithful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	Snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	White	White	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	stretched	stretch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
26	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	motionless	motionless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
31	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
32	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
33	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
34	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
35	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | past | the seven dwarfs |  |  |  | evening |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **say** *speech: assert* | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **grieve** | participle | dwarfs *= dwarf* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **see** | past | dwarfs *= dwarf* | dwarfs's faithful Snow |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer snow=Stimulus |
| 5 | **stretch** | past | White |  |  |  |  | upon the ground; motionless *property* | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | White |  |  |  |  | dead *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **snow** |  | dwarfs *= dwarf* |  |  |  |  |  | nom snow «phenomenon intransitive»: poss=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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