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title: Snowdrop did not dream of any mischief; so she stood before the old… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Snowdrop did not dream of any mischief; so she stood before the old woman; but she set to work so nimbly, and pulled the lace so tight, that Snowdrop’s breath was stopped, and she fell down as if she were dead. Who acts: Snowdrop, breath. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Sweethear
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Sweetheart Roland, sentence 110

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Snowdrop did not dream of any mischief; so she stood before the old woman; but she set to work so nimbly, and pulled the lace so tight, that Snowdrop’s breath was stopped, and she fell down as if she were dead.

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**Who acts:** Snowdrop, breath · **What happens:** not dream, stand, set, work, pull, stop · **To what, where:** lace, breath

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Sweetheart Roland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Snowdrop, breath), 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:pg2591:30:110
# text = Snowdrop did not dream of any mischief; so she stood before the old woman; but she set to work so nimbly, and pulled the lace so tight, that Snowdrop’s breath was stopped, and she fell down as if she were dead.
1	Snowdrop	Snowdrop	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	dream	dream	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
7	mischief	mischief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
12	before	before	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	nimbly	nimbly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	pulled	pull	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	parataxis	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	lace	lace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	so	so	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	tight	tight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
32	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
33	Snowdrop	Snowdrop	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	’s	's	PART	POS	_	33	case	_	_
35	breath	breath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
36	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux:pass	_	_
37	stopped	stop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
40	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
41	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
42	down	down	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
43	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	47	mark	_	_
44	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	47	mark	_	_
45	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
46	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	cop	_	_
47	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **dream** | past · do-support | Snowdrop |  |  |  |  | of any mischief | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **stand** | past | SNOWDROP |  |  |  | before the old woman |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before woman=Location |
| 3 | **set** | past | SNOWDROP |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **work** | to-infinitive | SNOWDROP *not said here* |  |  |  |  | nimbly *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **pull** | past |  | the lace |  |  |  | tight *property* | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lace=Theme |
| 6 | **stop** | past · passive |  | Snowdrop's breath |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality |
| 7 | **fall down** | past | breath |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **is** | past | breath |  |  |  |  | dead *property* | tree rules |

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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:** «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.

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