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title: And when they took it away, she recovered, and told them all that ha… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: And when they took it away, she recovered, and told them all that had passed; and they warned her once more not to open the door to any one. Who acts: dwarfs, queen, that. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Little Snow White, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little Snow White, sentence 60

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And when they took it away, she recovered, and told them all that had passed; and they warned her once more not to open the door to any one.

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**Who acts:** dwarfs, queen, that · **What happens:** take away, recover, tell, pass, warn, not open · **To what, where:** comb, dwarfs, queen, door, one · **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 (dwarfs, queen, that), 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:pg11027:11:60
# text = And when they took it away, she recovered, and told them all that had passed; and they warned her once more not to open the door to any one.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	away	away	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	recovered	recover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	iobj	_	_
14	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	17	det:predet	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	warned	warn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
22	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	24	advmod	_	_
24	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	25	advmod	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	open	open	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	ccomp	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	32	det	_	_
32	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take away** | past | dwarfs *= dwarf* | comb |  |  |  | away *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 2 | **recover** | past | queen |  |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | queen *not said here* |  | dwarfs *= dwarf* |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **pass** | past · perfect | that |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **warn** *speech: warn* | past | dwarfs *= dwarf* |  | queen |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S\_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 6 | **not** **open** | to-infinitive |  | the door | any one |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent door=Patient to one=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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