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title: Then she gazed thoughtfully upon the red drops that sprinkled the wh… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then she gazed thoughtfully upon the red drops that sprinkled the white snow, and said, ‘Would that my little daughter may be as white as that snow, as red as that blood, and as black as this ebony windowframe!’ Who acts: queen, red drops, little daughter. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jaco
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Sweetheart Roland, sentence 62

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Then she gazed thoughtfully upon the red drops that sprinkled the white snow, and said, ‘Would that my little daughter may be as white as that snow, as red as that blood, and as black as this ebony windowframe!’

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**Who acts:** queen, red drops, little daughter · **What happens:** gaze, sprinkle, say, be · **To what, where:** white snow · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (queen, red drops, little daughter), 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:pg2591:30:62
# text = Then she gazed thoughtfully upon the red drops that sprinkled the white snow, and said, ‘Would that my little daughter may be as white as that snow, as red as that blood, and as black as this ebony windowframe!’
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	gazed	gaze	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	thoughtfully	thoughtfully	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	drops	drop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	sprinkled	sprinkle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
18	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	Would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
21	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
24	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	cop	_	_
26	as	as	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	ccomp	_	_
28	as	as	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	30	det	_	_
30	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	as	as	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
34	as	as	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	36	det	_	_
36	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	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	3	parataxis	_	_
41	as	as	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
42	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	44	det	_	_
43	ebony	ebony	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	windowframe	windowframe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	40	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gaze** | past | queen |  |  |  | then | upon the red drops; thoughtfully *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon drop=Theme |
| 2 | **sprinkle** | past | the red drops | the white snow |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent snow=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | may | my little daughter |  |  |  |  | as that 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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