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title: The young King remarked, however, that the faithful John always pass… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: The young King remarked, however, that the faithful John always passed by one door, so he asked, "Why do you not open that one?" " Who acts: young King, faithful John, John, you. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Faithful John, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Faithful John, sentence 12

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The young King remarked, however, that the faithful John always passed by one door, so he asked, "Why do you not open that one?" "

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**Who acts:** young King, faithful John, John, you · **What happens:** remark, pass, ask, not open · **To what, where:** one · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Faithful John. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young King, faithful John, John, you), 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:pg11027:16:12
# text = The young King remarked, however, that the faithful John always passed by one door, so he asked, "Why do you not open that one?" "
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	remarked	remark	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	however	however	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	faithful	faithful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	13	advmod	_	_
13	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	27	advmod	_	_
24	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
27	open	open	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	ccomp	_	_
28	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	29	det	_	_
29	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	_
32	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remark** *speech: assert* | participle | the young King |  |  |  |  | however *property* | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **pass** | participle | the faithful John |  |  |  |  | by one door; always *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by door=Location |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | John |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **not** **open** *in a quote* | present · do-support | you | that one |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location one=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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