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title: Then the blood ran cold in her heart with spite and malice, to see t… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the blood ran cold in her heart with spite and malice, to see that Snowdrop still lived; and she dressed herself up again, but in quite another dress from the one she wore before, and took with her a poisoned comb. Who acts: blood, Snowdrop. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, S
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Sweetheart Roland, sentence 117

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Then the blood ran cold in her heart with spite and malice, to see that Snowdrop still lived; and she dressed herself up again, but in quite another dress from the one she wore before, and took with her a poisoned comb.

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**Who acts:** blood, Snowdrop · **What happens:** run, see, live, dress up, wear, take · **To what, where:** heart, SNOWDROP, one, poisoned comb

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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 (blood, Snowdrop), 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:pg2591:30:117
# text = Then the blood ran cold in her heart with spite and malice, to see that Snowdrop still lived; and she dressed herself up again, but in quite another dress from the one she wore before, and took with her a poisoned comb.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	spite	spite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	malice	malice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	Snowdrop	Snowdrop	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	still	still	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	dressed	dress	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
24	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	23	obj	_	_
25	up	up	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
26	again	again	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
31	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	32	det	_	_
32	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
33	from	from	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
36	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	wore	wear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	acl:relcl	_	_
38	before	before	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	conj	_	_
42	with	with	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	obl	_	_
44	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	poisoned	poison	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	46	amod	_	_
46	comb	comb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | past | the blood |  |  | queen's heart | then | with spite and malice; cold *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in heart=Trajectory |
| 2 | **see** | to-infinitive | the blood *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **live** | past | Snowdrop |  |  |  | still |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **dress up** | past | SNOWDROP | SNOWDROP |  |  | again |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Patient |
| 5 | **wear** | past | SNOWDROP | the one *not said here* |  |  |  | before *property* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent one=Source |
| 6 | **take** | past | the blood *not said here* | a poisoned comb |  |  |  | with SNOWDROP | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent comb=Theme |
| 7 | **poison** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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:** «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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