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title: "Make haste, Rose-Red!" said her mother; "open the door; it is surel… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: "Make haste, Rose-Red!" said her mother; "open the door; it is surely some traveller seeking shelter." Who acts: you, mother, door, traveller. 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 21

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"Make haste, Rose-Red!" said her mother; "open the door; it is surely some traveller seeking shelter."

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**Who acts:** you, mother, door, traveller · **What happens:** make, say, open, be, seek · **To what, where:** haste, door, traveller, shelter · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (you, mother, door, traveller), 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:pg11027:23:21
# text = "Make haste, Rose-Red!" said her mother; "open the door; it is surely some traveller seeking shelter."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	haste	haste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	Rose	Rose	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Red	Red	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	open	open	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
21	surely	surely	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	23	det	_	_
23	traveller	traveller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
24	seeking	seek	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	acl	_	_
25	shelter	shelter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | haste |  |  |  | Rose *obl* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset haste=Product |
| 2 | **say** *speech: express* | past | knock's mother |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **open** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | the door |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | door | some traveller |  |  |  | surely *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **seek** *in a quote* | gerund | some traveller *not said here* | shelter |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shelter=Theme |

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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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