--- title: Then she felt comforted and happy again, and before another month ha… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Then she felt comforted and happy again, and before another month had passed she had a little child, and when she saw that it was as white as snow and as red as blood, her joy was so great that she died. Who acts: wife, tree, joy. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, tree, joy), 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:pg2591:38:13 # text = Then she felt comforted and happy again, and before another month had passed she had a little child, and when she saw that it was as white as snow and as red as blood, her joy was so great that she died. 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 felt feel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 comforted comfort VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 xcomp _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 7 again again ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 10 before before SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 11 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 12 det _ _ 12 month month NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj:pass _ _ 13 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 passed pass VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 15 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 ccomp _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 24 advmod _ _ 23 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 25 that that SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 27 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 28 as as ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 ccomp _ _ 30 as as ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 snow snow NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 33 as as ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 conj _ _ 35 as as ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 38 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 joy joy NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nsubj _ _ 40 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 42 cop _ _ 41 so so ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ _ 42 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 conj _ _ 43 that that SCONJ IN _ 45 mark _ _ 44 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 45 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 42 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **feel** | past | wife | | | | then | | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **comfort** | participle | wife *not said here* | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **pass** | past · perfect · passive | | another month | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **have** | past | wife | a little child | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient | | 5 | **see** | past | wife | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **is** | past | tree | | | | | as snow; white *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **be** | | tree *not said here* | | | | | as blood | tree rules | | 8 | **is** | past | wife's joy | | | | | great *property* | tree rules | | 9 | **die** | past | wife | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 10 | **joy** | | wife | | | | | | nom joy «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | 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 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/38/12/) - next →: [sentence 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/38/14/) - ↑ back to [The Juniper-tree](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/38/)