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title: Snow-white, Rose-red, Will you beat your wooer dead?’ — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Snow-white, Rose-red, Will you beat your wooer dead?’ Who acts: Rose. 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 33

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Snow-white, Rose-red, Will you beat your wooer dead?’

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**Who acts:** Rose · **What happens:** beat · **To what, where:** wooer

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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 (Rose), 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:pg2591:60:33
# text = Snow-white, Rose-red, Will you beat your wooer dead?’
1	Snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
5	Rose	Rose	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
9	Will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	beat	beat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
12	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	wooer	wooer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beat** | future | Rose | your wooer |  |  |  | dead *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wooer=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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