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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 107

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Although their intention was to preserve such material as part of German cultural and literary history, and their collection was first published with scholarly notes and no illustration, the tales soon came into the possession of young readers.

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**Who acts:** intention, Grimm · **What happens:** be, publish, come, intend, possess · **To what, where:** collection, possession, young readers

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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 (intention, Grimm), 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:pg2591:60:107
# text = Although their intention was to preserve such material as part of German cultural and literary history, and their collection was first published with scholarly notes and no illustration, the tales soon came into the possession of young readers.
1	Although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	intention	intention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	preserve	preserve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	advcl	_	_
7	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	material	material	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
12	German	German	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
13	cultural	cultural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	literary	literary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
16	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	collection	collection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
22	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	23	advmod	_	_
23	published	publish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	scholarly	scholarly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	notes	note	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	29	det	_	_
29	illustration	illustration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	_
33	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	32	advmod	_	_
34	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
35	into	into	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	possession	possession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	readers	reader	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	34	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Grimm's intention |  |  |  |  | as part of German cultural history; preserve *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **publish** | past · passive |  | Grimm's collection |  |  |  | with scholarly notes and no illustration and the tales; first *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result |
| 3 | **come** | past |  |  |  | the possession of young readers |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into possession=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **intend** |  | Grimm |  |  |  |  |  | nom intention «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **possess** |  |  | young readers |  |  |  |  | nom possession «act transitive»: of=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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