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description: This was in part due to Edgar Taylor, who made the first English translation in 1823, selecting about fifty stories ‘with the amusement of some young friends principally in view.’ Who acts: This, part. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Snow-white and Rose-red, with its dependency t
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 108

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This was in part due to Edgar Taylor, who made the first English translation in 1823, selecting about fifty stories ‘with the amusement of some young friends principally in view.’

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**Who acts:** This, part · **What happens:** be, make, select, amuse · **To what, where:** part, first English translation, 1823, fifty stories, view, young friends

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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 (This, part), 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:pg2591:60:108
# text = This was in part due to Edgar Taylor, who made the first English translation in 1823, selecting about fifty stories ‘with the amusement of some young friends principally in view.’
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	7	case	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	fixed	_	_
7	Edgar	Edgar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	Taylor	Taylor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	15	amod	_	_
14	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	translation	translation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	1823	1823	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	selecting	select	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
20	about	about	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
23	‘	‘	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	amusement	amusement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	30	det	_	_
29	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
31	principally	principally	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	view	view	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | This |  |  | part |  | due Edgar | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | past | part | the first English translation |  | 1823 |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent translation=Product |
| 3 | **select** | gerund | part *not said here* | fifty stories |  | view |  | with the amusement of some young friends | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Theme |
| 4 | **amuse** |  |  | some young friends |  |  |  |  | nom amusement «feeling 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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