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title: Then she dressed herself up as a peasant's wife, and travelled over… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Then she dressed herself up as a peasant's wife, and travelled over the hills to the dwarfs' cottage, and knocked at the door; but Snow-White put her head out of the window, and said, "I dare not let any one in, for the dwarfs have told me not to." " Who acts: queen, White. A sentence of «Grimm's Fa
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little Snow White, sentence 63

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Then she dressed herself up as a peasant's wife, and travelled over the hills to the dwarfs' cottage, and knocked at the door; but Snow-White put her head out of the window, and said, "I dare not let any one in, for the dwarfs have told me not to." "

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**Who acts:** queen, White · **What happens:** dress up, travel, knock, put, say, not dare · **To what, where:** queen, hills, Snow, window, one, dwarfs · **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 (queen, 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:pg11027:11:63
# text = Then she dressed herself up as a peasant's wife, and travelled over the hills to the dwarfs' cottage, and knocked at the door; but Snow-White put her head out of the window, and said, "I dare not let any one in, for the dwarfs have told me not to." "
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	dressed	dress	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obj	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	peasant	peasant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	travelled	travel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	over	over	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	dwarfs	dwarf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	'	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	cottage	cottage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	knocked	knock	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
25	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
30	Snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	White	White	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
33	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
34	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
36	out	out	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
44	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	46	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
46	dare	dare	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	42	ccomp	_	_
47	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	46	advmod	_	_
48	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	xcomp	_	_
49	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	50	det	_	_
50	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obj	_	_
51	in	in	ADV	RB	_	48	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
53	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	57	mark	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	dwarfs	dwarf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	57	nsubj:pass	_	_
56	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	57	aux	_	_
57	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	48	conj	_	_
58	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	57	iobj	_	_
59	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	57	advmod	_	_
60	to	to	PART	TO	_	59	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
63	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dress up** | past | queen | queen |  |  | then | as a peasant's wife | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Patient |
| 2 | **travel** | past | queen *not said here* |  |  | the hills |  | to the dwarfs's cottage | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to cottage=Destination |
| 3 | **knock** | past | queen *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at the door | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient |
| 4 | **put** | past | White | Snow |  | the window |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme out window=Destination |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | queen *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **not** **dare** *in a quote* | present | queen |  |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 7 | **not** **let in** *in a quote* | infinitive | queen *not said here* | any one |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |
| 8 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive |  | the dwarfs | queen |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient i=Topic |

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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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