--- title: But she could not yet conquer her proud heart, and said: ‘Although h… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: But she could not yet conquer her proud heart, and said: ‘Although he has performed both the tasks, he shall not be my husband until he had brought me an apple from the Tree of Life.’ Who acts: daughter, man. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The White Snake, with its dependency tr --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/34/51/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Grimms' Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/) / [The White Snake](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/34/) / 51 # Grimms' Fairy Tales, The White Snake, sentence 51 But she could not yet conquer her proud heart, and said: ‘Although he has performed both the tasks, he shall not be my husband until he had brought me an apple from the Tree of Life.’ **Who acts:** daughter, man · **What happens:** not conquer, say, perform, not be, bring · **To what, where:** proud heart, tasks, husband, apple, me · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The White Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter, man), 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:pg2591:34:51 # text = But she could not yet conquer her proud heart, and said: ‘Although he has performed both the tasks, he shall not be my husband until he had brought me an apple from the Tree of Life.’ 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 2 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 3 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 5 yet yet ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 conquer conquer VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 8 proud proud ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 14 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 Although although SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 16 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 performed perform VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 28 advcl _ _ 19 both both CCONJ CC _ 21 cc:preconj _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 tasks task NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 23 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 24 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 25 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 28 advmod _ _ 26 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 28 cop _ _ 27 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 husband husband NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 ccomp _ _ 29 until until SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 30 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 31 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 32 brought bring VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 28 advcl _ _ 33 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ _ 34 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 apple apple NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 36 from from ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 Tree Tree PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 nmod _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 Life Life PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **conquer** | could | daughter | daughter's proud heart | | | yet | | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | daughter *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **perform** | present · perfect | man | the tasks | | | | | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent task=Theme | | 4 | **not** **is a** | shall | man | my husband | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **bring** | past · perfect | man | a apple | me | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination apple=Theme | 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 50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/34/50/) - next →: [sentence 52](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/34/52/) - ↑ back to [The White Snake](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/34/)