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title: Then poor Snowdrop wandered along through the wood in great fear; an… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then poor Snowdrop wandered along through the wood in great fear; and the wild beasts roared about her, but none did her any harm. Who acts: poor Snowdrop, wild beasts, none. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Sweetheart Roland, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Sweetheart Roland, sentence 76

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Then poor Snowdrop wandered along through the wood in great fear; and the wild beasts roared about her, but none did her any harm.

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**Who acts:** poor Snowdrop, wild beasts, none · **What happens:** wander, roar, do · **To what, where:** wood, SNOWDROP

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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 (poor Snowdrop, wild beasts, none), 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:pg2591:30:76
# text = Then poor Snowdrop wandered along through the wood in great fear; and the wild beasts roared about her, but none did her any harm.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Snowdrop	Snowdrop	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	wandered	wander	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	along	along	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	through	through	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	roared	roar	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
18	about	about	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	23	nsubj	_	_
23	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
24	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	26	det	_	_
26	harm	harm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wander** | past | poor Snowdrop |  |  | the wood in great fear | then | along *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through wood=Trajectory |
| 2 | **roar** | past | the wild beasts |  |  |  |  | about SNOWDROP | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about she=Location |
| 3 | **do** | past | none | SNOWDROP |  |  |  |  | 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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