--- title: Early in the morning before the children were awake, she was already… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Early in the morning before the children were awake, she was already up, and when she saw both of them sleeping and looking so pretty, with their plump and rosy cheeks she muttered to herself: ‘That will be a dainty mouthful!’ Who acts: witch, That. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (witch, That), 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:pg2591:20:90 # text = Early in the morning before the children were awake, she was already up, and when she saw both of them sleeping and looking so pretty, with their plump and rosy cheeks she muttered to herself: ‘That will be a dainty mouthful!’ 1 Early early ADV RB Degree=Pos 4 advmod _ _ 2 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 5 before before ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 8 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 9 awake awake ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 12 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 13 already already ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 up up ADV RB _ 9 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 19 advmod _ _ 18 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 20 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 19 obj _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nmod _ _ 23 sleeping sleep VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 acl _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 conj _ _ 26 so so ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 pretty pretty ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 29 with with ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 30 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 31 plump plump ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 rosy rosy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 conj _ _ 34 cheeks cheek NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 35 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 muttered mutter VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 acl:relcl _ _ 37 to to ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 : : PUNCT : _ 46 punct _ _ 40 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 46 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 That that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 46 nsubj _ _ 42 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 46 aux _ _ 43 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 46 cop _ _ 44 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 45 dainty dainty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 46 mouthful mouthful NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 47 ! ! PUNCT . _ 46 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 48 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 46 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | | | | | before the children; morning | awake *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | past | witch | | | | | up *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **see** | past | witch | both | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer both=Stimulus | | 4 | **sleep** | gerund | | | | | | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **look** | gerund | | | | | | with children's plump cheeks; pretty *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 6 | **mutter** *speech: assert* | past | witch | children's plump cheeks *not said here* | witch | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent cheek=Topic to herself=Recipient | | 7 | **is a** | future | That | a dainty mouthful | | | | | tree rules | 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:** «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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 89](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/20/89/) - next →: [sentence 91](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/20/91/) - ↑ back to [Hansel and Gretel](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/20/)