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title: In the evening, when the snowflakes fell, the mother said: ‘Go, Snow… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: In the evening, when the snowflakes fell, the mother said: ‘Go, Snow-white, and bolt the door,’ and then they sat round the hearth, and the mother took her spectacles and read aloud out of a large book, and the two girls listened as they sat and spun. Who acts: snowflakes, mother, two girls, girls. 
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 18

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In the evening, when the snowflakes fell, the mother said: ‘Go, Snow-white, and bolt the door,’ and then they sat round the hearth, and the mother took her spectacles and read aloud out of a large book, and the two girls listened as they sat and spun.

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**Who acts:** snowflakes, mother, two girls, girls · **What happens:** fall, say, go, bolt, sit, take · **To what, where:** door, spectacles, large book · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (snowflakes, mother, two girls, girls), 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:pg2591:60:18
# text = In the evening, when the snowflakes fell, the mother said: ‘Go, Snow-white, and bolt the door,’ and then they sat round the hearth, and the mother took her spectacles and read aloud out of a large book, and the two girls listened as they sat and spun.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	snowflakes	snowflake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
14	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	Snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	bolt	bolt	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	30	advmod	_	_
29	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
31	round	round	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	hearth	hearth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
38	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
39	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	spectacles	spectacle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obj	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	read	read	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	conj	_	_
43	aloud	aloud	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
44	out	out	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
46	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
47	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
52	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	53	nummod	_	_
53	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	54	nsubj	_	_
54	listened	listen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	conj	_	_
55	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	57	mark	_	_
56	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	57	nsubj	_	_
57	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	54	advcl	_	_
58	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	59	cc	_	_
59	spun	spin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	57	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past | the snowflakes |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the mother |  |  |  | evening |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **go** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **bolt** | infinitive |  | the door |  |  |  |  | vn gobble-39.3-1 «NP V NP up»: agent=Agent door=Patient |
| 5 | **sit** | past | snowflakes *= snowflake* |  |  |  | then | round the hearth | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **take** | past | the mother | mother's spectacles |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spectacle=Theme |
| 7 | **read** | present | the mother *not said here* |  |  | a large book |  | aloud *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **listen** | past | the two girls |  |  |  |  |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **sit** | past | girls *= girl* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 10 | **spin** | past | girls *= girl* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |

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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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