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title: The mother loved her daughter very much, and when she looked at her… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The mother loved her daughter very much, and when she looked at her and then looked at the boy, it pierced her heart to think that he would always stand in the way of her own child, and she was continually thinking how she could get the whole of the property for her. Who acts: mother, snow, boy. A s
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Juniper-tree, sentence 17

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The mother loved her daughter very much, and when she looked at her and then looked at the boy, it pierced her heart to think that he would always stand in the way of her own child, and she was continually thinking how she could get the whole of the property for her.

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**Who acts:** mother, snow, boy · **What happens:** love, look, pierce, think, stand, get · **To what, where:** daughter, heart, way · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (mother, snow, 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:pg2591:38:17
# text = The mother loved her daughter very much, and when she looked at her and then looked at the boy, it pierced her heart to think that he would always stand in the way of her own child, and she was continually thinking how she could get the whole of the property for her.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	much	much	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
10	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
17	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	pierced	pierce	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
24	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	advcl	_	_
28	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
30	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	32	advmod	_	_
32	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	ccomp	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
38	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
42	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
43	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	aux	_	_
44	continually	continually	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
45	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
46	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	49	advmod	_	_
47	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
48	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	49	aux	_	_
49	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	45	ccomp	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	xcomp	_	_
52	of	of	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	property	property	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obl	_	_
55	for	for	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
56	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **love** | past | the mother | mother's daughter |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer daughter=Stimulus |
| 2 | **look** | past | mother |  |  |  |  | at wife | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme |
| 3 | **look** | past | mother *not said here* |  |  |  | then | at the boy | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at boy=Theme |
| 4 | **pierce** | past | snow | wife's heart |  |  |  |  | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient |
| 5 | **think** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | snow *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 6 | **stand** | would | boy |  |  | the way of wife's own child |  | always *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in way=Location |
| 7 | **think** *speech: other* | past · progressive | mother |  |  |  |  | continually *property* | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 8 | **get** | could | mother |  |  |  |  | whole *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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