--- title: When spring-time came, and all around began to look green and bright… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics description: When spring-time came, and all around began to look green and bright, one morning the bear said to Snow-White, "Now I must leave you, and all the summer long I shall not be able to come back." Who acts: spring time, bear. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Snow-white and Rose-red, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/23/38/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Grimm's Fairy Stories](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/) / [Snow-white and Rose-red](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/23/) / 38 # Grimm's Fairy Stories, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 38 When spring-time came, and all around began to look green and bright, one morning the bear said to Snow-White, "Now I must leave you, and all the summer long I shall not be able to come back." **Who acts:** spring time, bear · **What happens:** come, begin, look, say, leave, not be · **To what, where:** one morning, White · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (spring time, bear), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg11027:23:38 # text = When spring-time came, and all around began to look green and bright, one morning the bear said to Snow-White, "Now I must leave you, and all the summer long I shall not be able to come back." 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 5 mark _ _ 2 spring spring NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 8 all all ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 9 around around ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 xcomp _ _ 13 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 xcomp _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 bright bright ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 18 nummod _ _ 18 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl:unmarked _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 bear bear NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 acl:relcl _ _ 22 to to ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 Snow snow NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 White White PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 27 " " PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 31 advmod _ _ 29 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 30 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 conj _ _ 32 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 35 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 37 det:predet _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 summer summer NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl:unmarked _ _ 38 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 43 advmod _ _ 39 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 40 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ _ 41 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 43 advmod _ _ 42 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 43 cop _ _ 43 able able ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 conj _ _ 44 to to PART TO _ 45 mark _ _ 45 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 43 xcomp _ _ 46 back back ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 48 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | spring time | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **begin** | past | spring time *not said here* | | | | | all, around *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **look** | to-infinitive | spring time *not said here* | | | | morning | green *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the bear | one morning *not said here* | White | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent morning=Topic to white=Recipient | | 5 | **leave** *in a quote* | must | the bear *= bear* | White | | | now | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | | 6 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | shall | the bear *= bear* | | | | | able, long *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **come back** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the bear *= bear* *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/23/37/) - next →: [sentence 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/23/39/) - ↑ back to [Snow-white and Rose-red](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/23/)