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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 105

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Jacob was a pioneer in the study of German philology, and although Wilhelm’s work was hampered by poor health the brothers collaborated in the creation of a German dictionary, not completed until a century after their deaths.

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**Who acts:** Jacob, poor health, brothers, Wilhelm, Grimm · **What happens:** be, hamper, collaborate, not complete, study, work · **To what, where:** pioneer, study, work, poor health, creation, German dictionary

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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 (Jacob, poor health, brothers, Wilhelm), 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:pg2591:60:105
# text = Jacob was a pioneer in the study of German philology, and although Wilhelm’s work was hampered by poor health the brothers collaborated in the creation of a German dictionary, not completed until a century after their deaths.
1	Jacob	Jacob	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	pioneer	pioneer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	study	study	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	German	German	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	philology	philology	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
13	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
14	Wilhelm	Wilhelm	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	’s	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	hampered	hamper	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	health	health	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
24	collaborated	collaborate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	creation	creation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	German	German	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	dictionary	dictionary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	34	advmod	_	_
34	completed	complete	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	acl	_	_
35	until	until	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
38	after	after	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	deaths	death	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Jacob | a pioneer |  | the study of German philology |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hamper** | past · passive | poor health | Wilhelm's work |  |  |  |  | vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer subject=Eventuality |
| 3 | **collaborate** | past | the brothers | poor health *not said here* |  | the creation of a German dictionary |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **complete** | participle |  | a German dictionary *not said here* |  |  | century |  | vn complete-55.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **study** |  |  | German philology |  |  |  |  | nom study «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 6 | **work** |  | Wilhelm |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 7 | **create** |  |  | a German dictionary |  |  |  |  | nom creation «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 8 | **die** |  | Grimm |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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