--- title: Rose-red liked better to run about in the meadows and fields seeking… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Rose-red liked better to run about in the meadows and fields seeking flowers and catching butterflies; but Snow-white sat at home with her mother, and helped her with her housework, or read to her when there was nothing to do. Who acts: meadows, nothing. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (meadows, nothing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2591:60:5 # text = Rose-red liked better to run about in the meadows and fields seeking flowers and catching butterflies; but Snow-white sat at home with her mother, and helped her with her housework, or read to her when there was nothing to do. 1 Rose rose NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 4 liked like VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 advcl _ _ 5 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 4 xcomp _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 run run VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 advcl _ _ 8 about about ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 meadows meadow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 fields field NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ _ 14 seeking seek VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 acl _ _ 15 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 catching catch VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 14 conj _ _ 18 butterflies butterfly NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 20 but but CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 21 Snow snow NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 22 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 sat sat NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 25 at at ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 27 with with ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 helped help VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 33 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ _ 34 with with ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 housework housework NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 or or CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 read read VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 32 parataxis _ _ 40 to to ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 obl _ _ 42 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 44 advmod _ _ 43 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 44 expl _ _ 44 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 advcl _ _ 45 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 44 nsubj _ _ 46 to to PART TO _ 47 mark _ _ 47 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 45 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **like** | participle | | | | | | good *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot | | 2 | **run about** | to-infinitive | | | | the meadows and fields | | about *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in meadow=Trajectory | | 3 | **seek** | gerund | the meadows and fields *not said here* | flowers | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Theme | | 4 | **catch** | gerund | the meadows and fields *not said here* | butterflies | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent butterfly=Theme | | 5 | **help** | past | | | Snow | | | with Snow's housework | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary with housework=Theme | | 6 | **read** | infinitive | | | Snow | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient | | 7 | **be** | past | nothing | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **do** | to-infinitive | nothing *not said here* | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/60/4/) - next →: [sentence 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/60/6/) - ↑ back to [Snow-white and Rose-red](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/60/)