--- title: Meantime the queen went home to her glass, and shook with rage when… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Meantime the queen went home to her glass, and shook with rage when she read the very same answer as before; and she said, ‘Snowdrop shall die, if it cost me my life.’ Who acts: queen, Snowdrop, answer. 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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 (queen, Snowdrop, answer), 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:pg2591:30:125 # text = Meantime the queen went home to her glass, and shook with rage when she read the very same answer as before; and she said, ‘Snowdrop shall die, if it cost me my life.’ 1 Meantime meantime NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl:unmarked _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 queen queen NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 home home ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 to to 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 glass glass NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 shook shake VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 12 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 rage rage NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 14 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 16 advmod _ _ 15 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 read read VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 18 very very ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 answer answer NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 21 as as ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 before before ADV RB _ 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 Snowdrop Snowdrop PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 30 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 die die VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 if if SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 34 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 cost cost VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 conj _ _ 36 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 35 iobj _ _ 37 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 31 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | the queen | Meantime | | queen's glass | | home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to glass=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **shake** | past | the queen *not said here* | | | | | with rage | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent with rage=Co-Patient | | 3 | **read** | past | queen | the same answer | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer answer=Stimulus as before=Attribute | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | queen | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **die** | shall | Snowdrop | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 6 | **cost** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | answer | my life | me | | | | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme i=Beneficiary life=Value | 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 124](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/30/124/) - next →: [sentence 126](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/30/126/) - ↑ back to [Sweetheart Roland](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/30/)