--- title: Snowdrop, suspecting no evil, stood before her and let her lace her… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Snowdrop, suspecting no evil, stood before her and let her lace her bodice up, but the old woman laced her so quickly and so tightly that it took Snowdrop’s breath away, and she fell down dead. Who acts: Snowdrop, old woman, it, woman. 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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 (Snowdrop, old woman, it, woman), 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:pg540:47:197 # text = Snowdrop, suspecting no evil, stood before her and let her lace her bodice up, but the old woman laced her so quickly and so tightly that it took Snowdrop’s breath away, and she fell down dead. 1 Snowdrop Snowdrop PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 suspecting suspect VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 1 acl _ _ 4 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 5 det _ _ 5 evil evil NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 7 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 before before ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obl _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 12 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 lace lace VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 xcomp _ _ 14 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 bodice bodice NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 up up ADP RP _ 13 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 18 but but CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 laced lace VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 23 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 so so ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 quickly quickly ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 27 so so ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 tightly tightly ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 29 that that SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 32 Snowdrop Snowdrop PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 33 ’s 's PART POS _ 32 case _ _ 34 breath breath NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 35 away away ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 38 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 39 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 40 down down ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 41 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **suspect** | gerund | Snowdrop *not said here* | no evil | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent evil=Attribute | | 2 | **stand** | past | Snowdrop | | | | before mother | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before she=Location | | 3 | **let** | infinitive | Snowdrop *not said here* | SNOWDROP | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **lace up** | infinitive | SNOWDROP *not said here* | SNOWDROP's bodice | | | | | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bodice=Patient | | 5 | **lace** | past | the old woman | SNOWDROP | | | | quickly *property* | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | | 6 | **take** | past | it | Snowdrop's breath | | | | away, tightly *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Theme | | 7 | **fall down** | past | woman | | | | | dead, down *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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 196](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/47/196/) - next →: [sentence 198](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/47/198/) - ↑ back to [Bushy Bride](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/47/)