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title: They were as good and happy, as busy and cheerful as ever two childr… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: They were as good and happy, as busy and cheerful as ever two children in the world were, only Snow-white was more quiet and gentle than Rose-red. Who acts: trees. 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 4

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They were as good and happy, as busy and cheerful as ever two children in the world were, only Snow-white was more quiet and gentle than Rose-red.

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**Who acts:** trees · **What happens:** be

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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 (trees), 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:pg2591:60:4
# text = They were as good and happy, as busy and cheerful as ever two children in the world were, only Snow-white was more quiet and gentle than Rose-red.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	busy	busy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	cheerful	cheerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	14	advmod	_	_
14	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	only	only	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
22	Snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	advmod	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	27	advmod	_	_
27	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	gentle	gentle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	conj	_	_
30	than	than	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	Rose	Rose	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | trees *= tree* |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | trees *= tree* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | trees *= tree* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | trees *= tree* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as two children in the world | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | than Rose red; quiet *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **be** |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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