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title: And thus Snowdrop lay for a long, long time, and still only looked a… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Sweetheart Roland, sentence 145

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And thus Snowdrop lay for a long, long time, and still only looked as though she was asleep; for she was even now as white as snow, and as red as blood, and as black as ebony.

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**Who acts:** Snowdrop · **What happens:** lie, look, be

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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), 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:pg2591:30:145
# text = And thus Snowdrop lay for a long, long time, and still only looked as though she was asleep; for she was even now as white as snow, and as red as blood, and as black as ebony.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	Snowdrop	Snowdrop	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
7	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	still	still	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	only	only	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
16	as	as	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
22	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
25	even	even	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	28	advmod	_	_
27	as	as	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
29	as	as	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	as	as	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advcl	_	_
35	as	as	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
39	as	as	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
40	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	conj	_	_
41	as	as	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	ebony	ebony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | past | Snowdrop |  |  |  | time | thus *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **look** | past | Snowdrop *not said here* |  |  |  | still |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** | past | SNOWDROP |  |  |  |  | asleep *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past | SNOWDROP |  |  |  | now | as snow; white *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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