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title: Rose-red loved to run about the fields and meadows, and to pick flow… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Rose-red loved to run about the fields and meadows, and to pick flowers and catch butterflies; but Snow-white sat at home with her mother and helped her in the household, or read aloud to her when there was no work to do. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Snow-white and Rose-red, w
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 3

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Rose-red loved to run about the fields and meadows, and to pick flowers and catch butterflies; but Snow-white sat at home with her mother and helped her in the household, or read aloud to her when there was no work to do.

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**What happens:** love, run, pick, catch, help, read · **To what, where:** Rose, flowers, butterflies, two, household

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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: 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:pg503:36:3
# text = Rose-red loved to run about the fields and meadows, and to pick flowers and catch butterflies; but Snow-white sat at home with her mother and helped her in the household, or read aloud to her when there was no work to do.
1	Rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	loved	love	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	about	about	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	meadows	meadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	pick	pick	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
16	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	catch	catch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
19	butterflies	butterfly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	Snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	sat	sat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
26	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	helped	help	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
33	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	household	household	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	read	read	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
40	aloud	aloud	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
41	to	to	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
42	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	47	nmod:poss	_	_
43	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	45	advmod	_	_
44	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	45	expl	_	_
45	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	cop	_	_
46	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	47	det	_	_
47	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
48	to	to	PART	TO	_	49	mark	_	_
49	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **love** | participle · passive |  | Rose |  |  |  | Snow white sat at home with two's mother *obl* | tree rules |
| 2 | **run** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | about the fields and meadows | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about field=Trajectory |
| 3 | **pick** | to-infinitive |  | flowers |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Patient |
| 4 | **catch** | present |  | butterflies |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent butterfly=Theme |
| 5 | **help** | past |  |  | two | the household |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary |
| 6 | **read** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | aloud *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | to two's work | tree rules |
| 8 | **do** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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