--- title: Meantime the queen went home to her glass, and trembled with rage wh… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics description: Meantime the queen went home to her glass, and trembled with rage when she received exactly the same answer as before; and she said, "Snow-White shall die, if it costs me my life." Who acts: queen, Snow, answer. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Little Snow White, with its depend --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/11/61/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Grimm's Fairy Stories](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/) / [Little Snow White](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/11/) / 61 # Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little Snow White, sentence 61 Meantime the queen went home to her glass, and trembled with rage when she received exactly the same answer as before; and she said, "Snow-White shall die, if it costs me my life." **Who acts:** queen, Snow, answer · **What happens:** go, tremble, receive, say, die, cost · **To what, where:** Meantime, glass, same answer, life, queen · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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, Snow, answer), 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:pg11027:11:61 # text = Meantime the queen went home to her glass, and trembled with rage when she received exactly the same answer as before; and she said, "Snow-White shall die, if it costs me my life." 1 Meantime meantime NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl:unmarked _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 queen queen NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 home home ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 glass glass NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 trembled tremble VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ _ 12 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 rage rage NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 14 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 16 advmod _ _ 15 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 received receive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ _ 17 exactly exactly ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 answer answer NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 21 as as ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 before before ADV RB _ 20 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 28 " " PUNCT `` _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 Snow snow NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 White White PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 32 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 die die VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 35 if if SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 36 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 37 costs cost VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 acl:relcl _ _ 38 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 37 iobj _ _ 39 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 40 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 " " PUNCT '' _ 33 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | the queen | Meantime | | queen's glass | | home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to glass=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **tremble** | participle | the queen *not said here* | | | | | with rage | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **receive** | past | queen | the same answer | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Theme | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | queen | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **die** *in a quote* | shall | Snow | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 6 | **cost** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | answer | my life | queen | | | | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme i=Beneficiary life=Value | 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 60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/11/60/) - next →: [sentence 62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/11/62/) - ↑ back to [Little Snow White](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/11/)