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title: And the glass answered, "Thou, lady, art the loveliest _here_, I wee… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: And the glass answered, "Thou, lady, art the loveliest _here_, I ween; But lovelier far is the new-made queen." Who acts: glass, Thou. 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 89

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And the glass answered, "Thou, lady, art the loveliest \_here\_, I ween; But lovelier far is the new-made queen."

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**Who acts:** glass, Thou · **What happens:** answer, lady, ween, make, be · **To what, where:** made queen · **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 (glass, Thou), 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:pg11027:11:89
# text = And the glass answered, "Thou, lady, art the loveliest _here_, I ween; But lovelier far is the new-made queen."
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	art	art	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	loveliest	lovely	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	11	appos	_	_
14	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	ween	ween	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	lovelier	lovely	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	conj	_	_
23	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	22	advmod	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
26	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	amod	_	_
29	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | the glass |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **lady** *in a quote* |  | Thou |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **ween** *in a quote* | present | the glass *= glass* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **make** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | the made queen |  |  |  |  | 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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