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title: Then the King summoned all his goldsmiths, who worked day and night… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the King summoned all his goldsmiths, who worked day and night until many very beautiful things were ready. Who acts: King, goldsmiths, many beautiful things. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Faithful John, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Faithful John, sentence 28

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Then the King summoned all his goldsmiths, who worked day and night until many very beautiful things were ready.

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**Who acts:** King, goldsmiths, many beautiful things · **What happens:** summon, work, be · **To what, where:** goldsmiths

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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 (King, goldsmiths, many beautiful things), 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:pg11027:16:28
# text = Then the King summoned all his goldsmiths, who worked day and night until many very beautiful things were ready.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	summoned	summon	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	7	det:predet	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	goldsmiths	goldsmith	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	worked	work	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
11	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl:unmarked	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
15	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
16	very	very	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **summon** | past | the King |  | King's goldsmiths |  | then |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goldsmith=Recipient |
| 2 | **work** | past | King's goldsmiths |  |  |  | day |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | many beautiful things |  |  |  |  | ready *property* | 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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