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title: Nobody knew him; the father took him for some celebrated general, an… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Nobody knew him; the father took him for some celebrated general, and led him into the room where his daughters were. Who acts: Nobody, father, daughters. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Goose, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 111

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Nobody knew him; the father took him for some celebrated general, and led him into the room where his daughters were.

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**Who acts:** Nobody, father, daughters · **What happens:** know, take, celebrate, lead, be · **To what, where:** BEARSKIN, room

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This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Goose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nobody, father, daughters), 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:pg11027:15:111
# text = Nobody knew him; the father took him for some celebrated general, and led him into the room where his daughters were.
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	2	nsubj	_	_
2	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	det	_	_
11	celebrated	celebrate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	amod	_	_
12	general	general	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	into	into	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	23	advmod	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	daughters	daughter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | past | Nobody | BEARSKIN |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 2 | **take** | past | the father | BEARSKIN |  |  |  | for some celebrated general | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent he=Theme for general=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **celebrate** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **lead** | past | the father *not said here* | BEARSKIN |  | the room |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme into room=Destination |
| 5 | **be** | past | BEARSKIN's daughters |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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