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description: When she heard this, the queen started with rage; but her envy and curiosity were so great, that she could not help setting out to see the bride. Who acts: queen, envy. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Little Snow White, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little Snow White, sentence 90

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When she heard this, the queen started with rage; but her envy and curiosity were so great, that she could not help setting out to see the bride.

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**Who acts:** queen, envy · **What happens:** hear, start, be, not help, set out, see · **To what, where:** this, bride

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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, envy), 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:pg11027:11:90
# text = When she heard this, the queen started with rage; but her envy and curiosity were so great, that she could not help setting out to see the bride.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	rage	rage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	envy	envy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	curiosity	curiosity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
26	setting	set	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	xcomp	_	_
27	out	out	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	advcl	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | queen | this |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus |
| 2 | **start** | past | the queen |  |  |  |  | with rage | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with rage=Subeventuality |
| 3 | **is** | past | queen's envy and curiosity |  |  |  |  | great *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **help** | could | queen |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **set out** *not said to happen* | gerund | queen *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **see** | to-infinitive | queen *not said here* | the bride |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bride=Stimulus |
| 7 | **envy** |  | queen |  |  |  |  |  | nom envy «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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