--- title: Then she dressed herself up as a peasant’s wife, and travelled over… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Then she dressed herself up as a peasant’s wife, and travelled over the hills to the dwarfs’ cottage, and knocked at the door; but Snowdrop put her head out of the window and said, ‘I dare not let anyone in, for the dwarfs have told me not.’ Who acts: SNOWDROP, I. 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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 (SNOWDROP, I), 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:pg2591:30:127 # text = Then she dressed herself up as a peasant’s wife, and travelled over the hills to the dwarfs’ cottage, and knocked at the door; but Snowdrop put her head out of the window and said, ‘I dare not let anyone in, for the dwarfs have told me not.’ 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 dressed dress VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 3 obj _ _ 5 up up ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 6 as as ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 peasant peasant NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ’s 's PART POS _ 8 case _ _ 10 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 travelled travel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 14 over over ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 hills hill NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 17 to to ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 dwarfs dwarf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ’ 's PART POS _ 19 case _ _ 21 cottage cottage NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 knocked knock VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 25 at at ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 ; ; PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 29 but but CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 Snowdrop Snowdrop PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 put put VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 32 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 34 out out ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 window window NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 41 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 45 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 43 dare dare VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 45 aux _ _ 44 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 43 advmod _ _ 45 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 39 ccomp _ _ 46 anyone anyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 45 obj _ _ 47 in in ADP RP _ 45 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 48 , , PUNCT , _ 53 punct _ _ 49 for for SCONJ IN _ 53 mark _ _ 50 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 51 dwarfs dwarf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 53 nsubj:pass _ _ 52 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 53 aux _ _ 53 told tell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 45 parataxis _ _ 54 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 53 iobj _ _ 55 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 53 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 56 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 57 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **dress up** | past | SNOWDROP | SNOWDROP | | | then | as a peasant's wife | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Patient | | 2 | **travel** | past | SNOWDROP *not said here* | | | the hills | | to the dwarfs's cottage | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to cottage=Destination | | 3 | **knock** | past | SNOWDROP *not said here* | | | | | at the door | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient | | 4 | **put** | past | Snowdrop | SNOWDROP's head | | the window | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme out window=Destination | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Snowdrop *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **let in** | present | I | anyone | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Theme | | 7 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* | present · perfect · passive | | the dwarfs | me | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient i=Topic | 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 126](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/30/126/) - next →: [sentence 128](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/30/128/) - ↑ back to [Sweetheart Roland](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/30/)