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title: He now had a little daughter born to him; the child of his first wif… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He now had a little daughter born to him; the child of his first wife was a boy, who was as red as blood and as white as snow. Who acts: sorrow, child, boy. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Juniper-tree, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Juniper-tree, sentence 16

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He now had a little daughter born to him; the child of his first wife was a boy, who was as red as blood and as white as snow.

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**Who acts:** sorrow, child, boy · **What happens:** have, bear, be · **To what, where:** little daughter, sorrow, boy

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Juniper-tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sorrow, child, boy), 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:pg2591:38:16
# text = He now had a little daughter born to him; the child of his first wife was a boy, who was as red as blood and as white as snow.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	16	amod	_	_
16	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	as	as	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	acl:relcl	_	_
25	as	as	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	as	as	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	conj	_	_
30	as	as	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | sorrow | a little daughter |  |  | now |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient |
| 2 | **bear** | participle |  | a little daughter *not said here* | sorrow |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is a** | past | the child of sorrow's first wife | a boy |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past | a boy |  |  |  |  | as blood; red *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** |  | a boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as snow | 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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