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title: The girls had run away, but the bear called to them: ‘Snow-white and… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The girls had run away, but the bear called to them: ‘Snow-white and Rose-red, do not be afraid; wait, I will come with you.’ Who acts: girls, I. 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 95

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The girls had run away, but the bear called to them: ‘Snow-white and Rose-red, do not be afraid; wait, I will come with you.’

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**Who acts:** girls, I · **What happens:** run away, call, not be, wait, come · **To what, where:** bear, girls · **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 (girls, 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:pg2591:60:95
# text = The girls had run away, but the bear called to them: ‘Snow-white and Rose-red, do not be afraid; wait, I will come with you.’
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	run	run	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	away	away	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
14	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	parataxis	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	Rose	Rose	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	cop	_	_
26	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	wait	wait	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
31	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	conj	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run away** | past · perfect | the girls |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **call** *speech: assert* | participle · passive |  | the bear | girls *= girl* |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to they=Recipient |
| 3 | **not** **is** | infinitive · do-support |  |  |  |  |  | afraid *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **wait** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **come** | future | I |  |  |  |  | with you | 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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