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title: At last a prince came and called at the dwarfs' house; and he saw Sn… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: At last a prince came and called at the dwarfs' house; and he saw Snow-White and read what was written in golden letters. Who acts: owl. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Little Snow White, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little Snow White, sentence 81

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At last a prince came and called at the dwarfs' house; and he saw Snow-White and read what was written in golden letters.

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**Who acts:** owl · **What happens:** come, call, see, read, write · **To what, where:** Snow White, golden letters · **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 (owl), 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:pg11027:11:81
# text = At last a prince came and called at the dwarfs' house; and he saw Snow-White and read what was written in golden letters.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	dwarfs	dwarf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	'	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
17	Snow	Snow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	White	White	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	read	read	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
22	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	ccomp	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	letters	letter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past |  |  |  |  |  | at a last prince | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at prince=Location |
| 2 | **call** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | at the dwarfs's house | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at house=Stimulus |
| 3 | **see** | past | owl | Snow White |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer white=Stimulus |
| 4 | **read** | infinitive | owl *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **write** | past · passive |  |  |  | golden letters |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in letter=Destination |

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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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