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title: She had two children, who were just like the two rose trees; one was… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She had two children, who were just like the two rose trees; one was called Snow-white and the other Rose-red, and they were the sweetest and best children in the world, always diligent and always cheerful; but Snow-white was quieter and more gentle than Rose-red. Who acts: two, two children, trees,
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 2

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She had two children, who were just like the two rose trees; one was called Snow-white and the other Rose-red, and they were the sweetest and best children in the world, always diligent and always cheerful; but Snow-white was quieter and more gentle than Rose-red.

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**Who acts:** two, two children, trees, Snow white · **What happens:** have, be, call · **To what, where:** two children, one, world · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, 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 (two, two children, trees, Snow white), 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:pg503:36:2
# text = She had two children, who were just like the two rose trees; one was called Snow-white and the other Rose-red, and they were the sweetest and best children in the world, always diligent and always cheerful; but Snow-white was quieter and more gentle than Rose-red.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
8	just	just	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nsubj	_	_
12	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
13	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
18	Snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
23	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
24	Rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
29	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
30	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	sweetest	sweet	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	17	xcomp	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	35	amod	_	_
35	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	conj	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	41	advmod	_	_
41	diligent	diligent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	parataxis	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
43	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	44	advmod	_	_
44	cheerful	cheerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
46	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
47	Snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	47	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	white	white	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nsubj	_	_
50	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	cop	_	_
51	quieter	quiet	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	conj	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
53	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	54	advmod	_	_
54	gentle	gentle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	conj	_	_
55	than	than	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
56	Rose	Rose	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	58	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	56	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | two | two children |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | past | two children |  |  |  |  | rise *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **call** | past · passive |  | one |  |  |  | white *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 4 | **is** | past | trees *= tree* |  |  | the world |  | sweet *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | past | Snow white |  |  |  |  | than Rose red; quiet *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **be** |  | Snow white *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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:** «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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