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title: The trusty servant deliberated for a long while how to set about thi… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: The trusty servant deliberated for a long while how to set about this business, for it was very difficult to get into the presence of the King's daughter. Who acts: trusty servant. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Faithful John, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Faithful John, sentence 25

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The trusty servant deliberated for a long while how to set about this business, for it was very difficult to get into the presence of the King's daughter.

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**Who acts:** trusty servant · **What happens:** deliberate, set, be, get · **To what, where:** presence

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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 (trusty servant), 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:pg11027:16:25
# text = The trusty servant deliberated for a long while how to set about this business, for it was very difficult to get into the presence of the King's daughter.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	trusty	trusty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	deliberated	deliberate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obl	_	_
8	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
12	about	about	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
14	business	business	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	expl	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	very	very	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	difficult	difficult	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	csubj	_	_
23	into	into	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	presence	presence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	's	's	PART	POS	_	28	case	_	_
30	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **deliberate** | past | the trusty servant |  |  |  |  | for a long | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **set** | to-infinitive | the trusty servant *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about this business | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent about business=Destination |
| 3 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | difficult *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **get** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | the presence of the King's daughter |  |  | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into presence=Destination |

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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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