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title: Perhaps," said he, "I shall bring the King's daughter with me; there… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Perhaps," said he, "I shall bring the King's daughter with me; therefore take care that all is in order, and set out the golden vessels and adorn the whole ship." Who acts: John, I. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Faithful John, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Faithful John, sentence 32

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Perhaps," said he, "I shall bring the King's daughter with me; therefore take care that all is in order, and set out the golden vessels and adorn the whole ship."

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**Who acts:** John, I · **What happens:** say, bring, take, be, set out, adorn · **To what, where:** daughter, care, order, golden vessels, whole ship · **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 (John, I), 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:pg11027:16:32
# text = Perhaps," said he, "I shall bring the King's daughter with me; therefore take care that all is in order, and set out the golden vessels and adorn the whole ship."
1	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
20	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
22	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	det	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	set	set	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
29	out	out	ADP	RP	_	28	compound:prt	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	vessels	vessel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	adorn	adorn	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | John |  |  |  |  | perhaps *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **bring** | shall | I |  | the King's daughter |  |  | with me | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument daughter=Destination |
| 3 | **take** | infinitive |  | care |  |  |  | therefore *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | present |  |  |  | all order |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **set out** | infinitive |  | the golden vessels |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **adorn** | infinitive |  | the whole ship |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ship=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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