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title: When spring had come and all outside was green, the bear said one mo… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When spring had come and all outside was green, the bear said one morning to Snow-white: ‘Now I must go away, and cannot come back for the whole summer.’ Who acts: spring, all, bear, I. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Snow-white and Rose-red, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 37

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When spring had come and all outside was green, the bear said one morning to Snow-white: ‘Now I must go away, and cannot come back for the whole summer.’

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**Who acts:** spring, all, bear, I · **What happens:** come, be, say, go away, not come back · **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 (spring, all, bear, I), 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:pg2591:60:37
# text = When spring had come and all outside was green, the bear said one morning to Snow-white: ‘Now I must go away, and cannot come back for the whole summer.’
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	nsubj	_	_
7	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
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	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
21	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	25	advmod	_	_
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
26	away	away	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
31	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
32	back	back	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
33	for	for	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past · perfect | spring |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | all |  |  |  |  | green *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the bear |  |  |  | morning | to white | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to white=Experiencer clause=Topic |
| 4 | **go away** | must | I |  |  |  | now | away *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **come back** | can | I *not said here* |  |  |  | summer |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP 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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