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title: Now the white snake was an enchanted princess; and she was very glad… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Now the white snake was an enchanted princess; and she was very glad to see him, and said, ‘Are you at last come to set me free? Who acts: white snake, snake, you. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The King of the Golden Mountain, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The King of the Golden Mountain, sentence 39

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Now the white snake was an enchanted princess; and she was very glad to see him, and said, ‘Are you at last come to set me free?

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**Who acts:** white snake, snake, you · **What happens:** enchant, be, see, say, set · **To what, where:** enchanted princess, man, me · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The King of the Golden Mountain. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (white snake, snake, you), 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:pg2591:51:39
# text = Now the white snake was an enchanted princess; and she was very glad to see him, and said, ‘Are you at last come to set me free?
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	enchanted	enchant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	very	very	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	parataxis	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
22	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	Are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
26	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	parataxis	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
30	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enchant** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is a** | past | the white snake | a enchanted princess |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | snake |  |  |  |  | glad *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **see** | to-infinitive | snake *not said here* | man |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is** | present | you |  |  |  |  | come *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **set** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | me |  |  |  | free *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient i=Result |

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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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