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title: She took the two rose-trees with her, and they stood before her wind… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: She took the two rose-trees with her, and they stood before her window, and every year bore the most beautiful roses, white and red. Who acts: mother, trees, year. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Snow-white and Rose-red, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 101

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She took the two rose-trees with her, and they stood before her window, and every year bore the most beautiful roses, white and red.

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**Who acts:** mother, trees, year · **What happens:** take, stand, bear · **To what, where:** two rose trees, window, beautiful roses

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, trees, year), 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:pg2591:60:101
# text = She took the two rose-trees with her, and they stood before her window, and every year bore the most beautiful roses, white and red.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
5	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	before	before	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	det	_	_
20	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	bore	bear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	24	advmod	_	_
24	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	roses	rose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	parataxis	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | mother | the two rose trees |  |  |  | with Snow | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Theme |
| 2 | **stand** | past | trees *= tree* |  |  | mother's window |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before window=Location |
| 3 | **bear** | past | every year | the beautiful roses |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rose=Patient |

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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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