--- title: ‘Ah,’ sighed the woman heavily, ‘if I had but a child, as red as blo… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: ‘Ah,’ sighed the woman heavily, ‘if I had but a child, as red as blood and as white as snow,’ and as she spoke the words, her heart grew light within her, and it seemed to her that her wish was granted, and she returned to the house feeling glad and comforted. Who acts: I, woman, heart, it. 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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 (I, woman, heart, it), 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:pg2591:38:6 # text = ‘Ah,’ sighed the woman heavily, ‘if I had but a child, as red as blood and as white as snow,’ and as she spoke the words, her heart grew light within her, and it seemed to her that her wish was granted, and she returned to the house feeling glad and comforted. 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Ah ah INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 5 sighed sigh VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 heavily heavily ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 if if SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 12 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 14 but but CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 as as ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 parataxis _ _ 20 as as ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 as as ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 conj _ _ 25 as as ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 snow snow NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 30 as as SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 31 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 spoke speak VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 38 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 conj _ _ 39 light light ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 xcomp _ _ 40 within within ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 44 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 45 seemed seem VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 conj _ _ 46 to to ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 47 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 obl _ _ 48 that that SCONJ IN _ 52 mark _ _ 49 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 50 nmod:poss _ _ 50 wish wish NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 nsubj:pass _ _ 51 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 52 aux:pass _ _ 52 granted grant VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 45 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 53 , , PUNCT , _ 56 punct _ _ 54 and and CCONJ CC _ 56 cc _ _ 55 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 56 nsubj _ _ 56 returned return VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 conj _ _ 57 to to ADP IN _ 59 case _ _ 58 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 59 det _ _ 59 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 56 obl _ _ 60 feeling feel VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 56 advcl _ _ 61 glad glad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 60 xcomp _ _ 62 and and CCONJ CC _ 63 cc _ _ 63 comforted comfort VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 61 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 64 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sigh** | past | | the woman | | | | heavily *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Topic | | 2 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | I | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | woman | the words | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **grow** | past | woman's heart | | | | | light *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **seem** | past | it | | woman | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **grant** | past · passive | | woman's wish | | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme | | 7 | **return** | past | heart | | | | | to the house *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to house=Result | | 8 | **feel** | gerund | heart *not said here* | | | | | glad *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 9 | **comfort** | participle | heart *not said here* | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 10 | **wish** | | woman | | | | | | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: 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 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/38/5/) - next →: [sentence 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/38/7/) - ↑ back to [The Juniper-tree](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/38/)