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title: So they went and told the King, knowing that, should war break out,… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: So they went and told the King, knowing that, should war break out, here was a valuable and useful man, whom one ought not to part with at any price. Who acts: people, war, knowing, valuable man. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Valiant Little Tailor, with its dependency tre
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 66

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So they went and told the King, knowing that, should war break out, here was a valuable and useful man, whom one ought not to part with at any price.

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**Who acts:** people, war, knowing, valuable man · **What happens:** go, tell, know, break out, be, not part · **To what, where:** King, valuable man · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Valiant Little Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, war, knowing, valuable man), 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:pg11027:13:66
# text = So they went and told the King, knowing that, should war break out, here was a valuable and useful man, whom one ought not to part with at any price.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	knowing	know	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	csubj	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	break	break	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	_
15	out	out	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
17	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
20	valuable	valuable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	useful	useful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	_
23	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
25	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
26	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nsubj	_	_
27	ought	ought	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	acl:relcl	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	at	at	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	34	det	_	_
34	price	price	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | people |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | people *not said here* |  | the King |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent king=Recipient |
| 3 | **know** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **break out** | should | war |  |  | here |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **is a** | past | knowing | a valuable man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **not** **part** | ought | a valuable man |  |  |  |  | with any price | 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:** «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (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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