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title: In spite of the dwarf's bad temper, the girls took all possible pain… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: In spite of the dwarf's bad temper, the girls took all possible pains to release the little man, but without avail, the beard could not be moved, it was wedged too tightly. Who acts: girls, dwarf. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Snow-white and Rose-red, with its dependency tree
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 55

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In spite of the dwarf's bad temper, the girls took all possible pains to release the little man, but without avail, the beard could not be moved, it was wedged too tightly.

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**Who acts:** girls, dwarf · **What happens:** take, release, not move, wedge, spite, temper · **To what, where:** possible pains, spite, little man, beard, avail, bad temper

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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 (girls, dwarf), 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:pg11027:23:55
# text = In spite of the dwarf's bad temper, the girls took all possible pains to release the little man, but without avail, the beard could not be moved, it was wedged too tightly.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	spite	spite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	dwarf	dwarf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	temper	temper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
14	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	pains	pain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	release	release	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
23	without	without	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	avail	avail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	beard	beard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
28	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
29	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
30	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	moved	move	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj:pass	_	_
34	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux:pass	_	_
35	wedged	wedge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
36	too	too	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	tightly	tightly	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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 | **take** | past | the girls | all possible pains |  | spite of the dwarf's bad temper |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent pain=Value in spite=Location |
| 2 | **release** | to-infinitive | the girls *not said here* | the little man |  |  |  |  | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer man=Source |
| 3 | **not** **move** | could · passive |  | the beard |  |  |  | without avail | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **wedge** | past · passive |  | avail |  |  |  | tightly *property* | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **spite** |  |  | the dwarf's bad temper |  |  |  |  | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
| 6 | **temper** |  | the dwarf |  |  |  |  |  | nom temper «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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