--- title: And it looked so pretty that the little girl took it up and put it i… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics description: And it looked so pretty that the little girl took it up and put it into her hair to try it; but the moment it touched her head the poison was so powerful that she fell down senseless. " Who acts: it, little girl, comb, moment. 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" **Who acts:** it, little girl, comb, moment, queen · **What happens:** look, take up, put, try, touch, be · **To what, where:** comb, hair, head 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 (it, little girl, comb, moment), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg11027:11:57 # text = And it looked so pretty that the little girl took it up and put it into her hair to try it; but the moment it touched her head the poison was so powerful that she fell down senseless. " 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 so so ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 pretty pretty ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 6 that that SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 up up ADP RP _ 10 compound:prt _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 into into ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 try try VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 advcl _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 23 but but CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 touched touch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 acl:relcl _ _ 28 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 poison poison NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 32 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ _ 33 so so ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 powerful powerful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ 35 that that SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 36 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 37 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 advcl _ _ 38 down down ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 39 senseless senseless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ 41 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | past | it | | | | | pretty *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **take up** | past | the little girl | comb | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 3 | **put** | infinitive | the little girl *not said here* | comb | | queen's hair | | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal | | 4 | **try** | to-infinitive | the little girl *not said here* | comb | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | | 5 | **touch** | past | comb | queen's head | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme head=Co-Theme | | 6 | **is** | past | the moment | | | | | powerful *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **fall down** | past | queen | | | | | down, senseless *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 56](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/11/56/) - next →: [sentence 58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/11/58/) - ↑ back to [Little Snow White](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/11/)