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title: Snow-White was more gentle, and quieter than her sister, who liked b… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Snow-White was more gentle, and quieter than her sister, who liked better skipping about the fields, seeking flowers, and catching summer birds; while Snow-White stayed at home with her mother, either helping her in her work, or, when that was done, reading aloud. Who acts: Snow, Snow White, White. 
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 5

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Snow-White was more gentle, and quieter than her sister, who liked better skipping about the fields, seeking flowers, and catching summer birds; while Snow-White stayed at home with her mother, either helping her in her work, or, when that was done, reading aloud.

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**Who acts:** Snow, Snow White, White · **What happens:** be, like, skip, seek, catch, stay · **To what, where:** flowers, summer birds, home, White, work, that

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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, Snow White, White), 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:pg11027:23:5
# text = Snow-White was more gentle, and quieter than her sister, who liked better skipping about the fields, seeking flowers, and catching summer birds; while Snow-White stayed at home with her mother, either helping her in her work, or, when that was done, reading aloud.
1	Snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	White	White	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	vocative	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	amod	_	_
6	gentle	gentle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	quieter	quiet	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	parataxis	_	_
10	than	than	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	liked	like	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
16	better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	15	advmod	_	_
17	skipping	skip	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	xcomp	_	_
18	about	about	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	seeking	seek	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	conj	_	_
23	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	catching	catch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
27	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
30	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
31	Snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	White	White	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
34	stayed	stay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
35	at	at	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
37	with	with	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	either	either	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc:preconj	_	_
42	helping	help	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	34	advcl	_	_
43	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	obj	_	_
44	in	in	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
48	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
50	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	53	advmod	_	_
51	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	53	nsubj:pass	_	_
52	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	53	aux:pass	_	_
53	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
55	reading	read	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	53	advcl	_	_
56	aloud	aloud	ADV	RB	_	55	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Snow |  |  |  |  | gentle *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **like** | past |  |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **skip** *not said to happen* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | about the fields | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about field=Trajectory |
| 4 | **seek** | gerund |  | flowers |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Theme |
| 5 | **catch** | gerund | Snow *not said here* | summer birds |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme |
| 6 | **stay** | past | Snow White |  |  | home |  | with White's mother | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location |
| 7 | **help** | gerund | Snow White *not said here* |  | White | White's work |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary |
| 8 | **do** | past · passive |  | that |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 9 | **read** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | aloud *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 10 | **work** |  | White |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: 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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