--- title: Snow-white was quite sad over their friend’s departure, and when she… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Snow-white was quite sad over their friend’s departure, and when she unbarred the door for him, the bear, stepping out, caught a piece of his fur in the door-knocker, and Snow-white thought she caught sight of glittering gold beneath it, but she couldn’t be certain of it; and the bear ran hastily aw --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/36/38/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Blue Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/) / [Snow-white and Rose-red](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/36/) / 38 # The Blue Fairy Book, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 38 Snow-white was quite sad over their friend’s departure, and when she unbarred the door for him, the bear, stepping out, caught a piece of his fur in the door-knocker, and Snow-white thought she caught sight of glittering gold beneath it, but she couldn’t be certain of it; and the bear ran hastily away, and soon disappeared behind the trees. **Who acts:** Snow white, sun, Snow white thought, sight, bear, friend · **What happens:** be, unbar, step out, catch, glitter, not be · **To what, where:** departure, door, piece, sight, gold, trees 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 (Snow white, sun, Snow white thought, sight), 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:pg503:36:38 # text = Snow-white was quite sad over their friend’s departure, and when she unbarred the door for him, the bear, stepping out, caught a piece of his fur in the door-knocker, and Snow-white thought she caught sight of glittering gold beneath it, but she couldn’t be certain of it; and the bear ran hastily away, and soon disappeared behind the trees. 1 Snow snow NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 white white NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 quite quite ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 sad sad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 7 over over ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 8 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ’s 's PART POS _ 9 case _ _ 11 departure departure NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 14 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 16 advmod _ _ 15 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 unbarred unbar VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 advcl _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 for for ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 bear bear NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 stepping step VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 conj _ _ 26 out out ADP RP _ 25 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 caught catch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 piece piece NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 fur fur NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 36 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 37 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 knocker knocker NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 41 Snow snow NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 42 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 41 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 thought thought NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 nsubj _ _ 45 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 46 nsubj _ _ 46 caught catch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 parataxis _ _ 47 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 obj _ _ 48 of of SCONJ IN _ 49 mark _ _ 49 glittering glitter VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 47 acl _ _ 50 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 obj _ _ 51 beneath beneath ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 52 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 49 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 53 , , PUNCT , _ 59 punct _ _ 54 but but CCONJ CC _ 59 cc _ _ 55 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 59 nsubj _ _ 56 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 59 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 57 n’t not PART RB Polarity=Neg 59 advmod _ _ 58 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 59 cop _ _ 59 certain certain ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 conj _ _ 60 of of ADP IN _ 61 case _ _ 61 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 59 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 62 ; ; PUNCT , _ 66 punct _ _ 63 and and CCONJ CC _ 66 cc _ _ 64 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 65 det _ _ 65 bear bear NOUN NN Number=Sing 66 nsubj _ _ 66 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 67 hastily hastily ADV RB _ 68 advmod _ _ 68 away away ADV RB _ 66 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 69 , , PUNCT , _ 72 punct _ _ 70 and and CCONJ CC _ 72 cc _ _ 71 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 72 advmod _ _ 72 disappeared disappear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 66 conj _ _ 73 behind behind ADP IN _ 75 case _ _ 74 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 75 det _ _ 75 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 72 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 76 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | Snow white | | | dwarfs's friend's departure | | sad *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **unbar** | past | sun | the door | | | | for white; the bear *obl* | tree rules | | 3 | **step out** | gerund | sun *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **catch** | past | | a piece of white's fur | | | | in the door knocker | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Theme | | 5 | **catch** | past | Snow white thought | sight | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme | | 6 | **glitter** | gerund | sight *not said here* | gold | | | | beneath thought | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent gold=Theme | | 7 | **not** **is** | could | sun | | | | | of thought; certain *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **run** | past | the bear | | | | | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 9 | **disappear** | past | the bear *not said here* | | | the trees | | soon *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 10 | **depart** | | dwarfs's friend | | | | | | nom departure «act intransitive»: poss=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:** «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. - ← previous: [sentence 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/36/37/) - next →: [sentence 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/36/39/) - ↑ back to [Snow-white and Rose-red](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/36/)