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title: So she went secretly into a chamber, and prepared a poisoned apple:… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: So she went secretly into a chamber, and prepared a poisoned apple: the outside looked very rosy and tempting, but whosoever tasted it was sure to die. Who acts: queen, outside, whosoever, it. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Little Snow White, with its dependency tree and the p
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little Snow White, sentence 62

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So she went secretly into a chamber, and prepared a poisoned apple: the outside looked very rosy and tempting, but whosoever tasted it was sure to die.

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**Who acts:** queen, outside, whosoever, it · **What happens:** go, prepare, poison, look, tempt, taste · **To what, where:** chamber, poisoned apple

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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, outside, whosoever, it), 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:pg11027:11:62
# text = So she went secretly into a chamber, and prepared a poisoned apple: the outside looked very rosy and tempting, but whosoever tasted it was sure to die.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	secretly	secretly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	chamber	chamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	prepared	prepare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	poisoned	poison	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	_
13	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	outside	outside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
18	very	very	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	rosy	rosy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	tempting	tempt	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	whosoever	whosoever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	tasted	taste	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	xcomp	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | queen |  |  | a chamber |  | secretly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into chamber=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **prepare** | past |  | a poisoned apple |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apple=Patient |
| 3 | **poison** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **look** | past | the outside |  |  |  |  | rosy *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **tempt** | gerund | the outside *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **taste** | past | whosoever |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 7 | **is** | past | it |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **die** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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