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title: Snow-White and Rose-Red kept their mother's cottage so clean that it… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Snow-White and Rose-Red kept their mother's cottage so clean that it gave pleasure only to look in. Who acts: Snow. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Snow-white and Rose-red, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 15

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Snow-White and Rose-Red kept their mother's cottage so clean that it gave pleasure only to look in.

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**Who acts:** Snow · **What happens:** keep, give, look in · **To what, where:** cottage, pleasure

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This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Snow), 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:pg11027:23:15
# text = Snow-White and Rose-Red kept their mother's cottage so clean that it gave pleasure only to look in.
1	Snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	White	White	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	Rose	Rose	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Red	Red	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
8	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	cottage	cottage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
18	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	only	only	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | past | Snow | children's mother's cottage |  |  |  | clean *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cottage=Theme |
| 2 | **give** | past | Snow | pleasure |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pleasure=Theme |
| 3 | **look in** | to-infinitive | Snow *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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