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title: When evening came, and the dwarfs had gone home, they found Snowdrop… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When evening came, and the dwarfs had gone home, they found Snowdrop lying on the ground: no breath came from her lips, and they were afraid that she was quite dead. Who acts: evening, dwarfs, Snowdrop, breath. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Sweetheart Roland, with its dependenc
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Sweetheart Roland, sentence 139

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When evening came, and the dwarfs had gone home, they found Snowdrop lying on the ground: no breath came from her lips, and they were afraid that she was quite dead.

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**Who acts:** evening, dwarfs, Snowdrop, breath · **What happens:** come, go, find, lie, be · **To what, where:** Snowdrop, ground, lips

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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 (evening, dwarfs, 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:pg2591:30:139
# text = When evening came, and the dwarfs had gone home, they found Snowdrop lying on the ground: no breath came from her lips, and they were afraid that she was quite dead.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	dwarfs	dwarf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
10	home	home	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	Snowdrop	Snowdrop	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
20	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	21	det	_	_
21	breath	breath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
30	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	conj	_	_
31	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
32	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
34	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | evening |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | past · perfect | the dwarfs |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **find** | past | dwarfs *= dwarf* | Snowdrop |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snowdrop=Topic |
| 4 | **lie** | gerund | Snowdrop *not said here* |  |  | the ground |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ground=Location |
| 5 | **come** | past | no breath |  |  | breath's lips |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from lip=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **is** | past | dwarfs *= dwarf* |  |  |  |  | afraid *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **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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