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title: And thus Snow-White lay for a long, long time, and still only looked… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: And thus Snow-White lay for a long, long time, and still only looked as though she were asleep; for she was even now as white as snow, and as red as blood, and as black as ebony. Who acts: thus Snow, White. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Little Snow White, with its dependency 
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little Snow White, sentence 80

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And thus Snow-White lay for a long, long time, and still only looked as though she were asleep; for she was even now as white as snow, and as red as blood, and as black as ebony.

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**Who acts:** thus Snow, White · **What happens:** lie, look, be

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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 (thus Snow, 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:pg11027:11:80
# text = And thus Snow-White lay for a long, long time, and still only looked as though she were asleep; for she was even now as white as snow, and as red as blood, and as black as ebony.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	thus	thus	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	White	White	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
9	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	still	still	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	only	only	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
18	as	as	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
24	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
25	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
27	even	even	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	30	advmod	_	_
29	as	as	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
31	as	as	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	as	as	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	advcl	_	_
37	as	as	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
41	as	as	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
42	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	conj	_	_
43	as	as	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	ebony	ebony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | past | thus Snow |  |  |  | time |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **look** | past | thus Snow *not said here* |  |  |  | still |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** | past | White |  |  |  |  | asleep *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past | White |  |  |  | now | as snow; white *property* | tree rules |

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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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