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title: The King took advice, and sent one of his courtiers to the Tailor to… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: The King took advice, and sent one of his courtiers to the Tailor to beg for his fighting services, if he should be awake. Who acts: King. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Valiant Little Tailor, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 67

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The King took advice, and sent one of his courtiers to the Tailor to beg for his fighting services, if he should be awake.

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**Who acts:** King · **What happens:** take, send, beg, be, service · **To what, where:** advice, one, Tailor

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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 (King), 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:pg11027:13:67
# text = The King took advice, and sent one of his courtiers to the Tailor to beg for his fighting services, if he should be awake.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	advice	advice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	courtiers	courtier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Tailor	tailor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	beg	beg	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	fighting	fighting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	services	service	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	cop	_	_
26	awake	awake	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | the King | advice |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=Theme |
| 2 | **send** | past | the King *not said here* | one of King's courtiers | the Tailor |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent one=Theme to tailor=Destination |
| 3 | **beg** *speech: request* | to-infinitive | the King *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for King's fighting services | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for service=Topic |
| 4 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | should | King |  |  |  |  | awake *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **service** |  | King |  |  |  |  |  | nom service «act transitive»: poss=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:** «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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