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title: Then the third Crow spoke: "I know still more: even if the bridal sh… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the third Crow spoke: "I know still more: even if the bridal shirt be consumed, still the young King will not retain his bride. Who acts: third Crow, young King. 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 70

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Then the third Crow spoke: "I know still more: even if the bridal shirt be consumed, still the young King will not retain his bride.

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**Who acts:** third Crow, young King · **What happens:** speak, know, consume, not retain · **To what, where:** more, bridal shirt, bride · **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 (third Crow, young King), 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:pg11027:16:70
# text = Then the third Crow spoke: "I know still more: even if the bridal shirt be consumed, still the young King will not retain his bride.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	amod	_	_
4	Crow	crow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
10	still	still	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
13	even	even	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
14	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	bridal	bridal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	shirt	shirt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	consumed	consume	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
21	still	still	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
25	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
27	retain	retain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | the third Crow |  |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **know** *in a quote* | present | the third Crow *= crow* | more |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer more=Stimulus |
| 3 | **consume** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | infinitive · passive |  | the bridal shirt |  |  |  |  | vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset |
| 4 | **not** **retain** *in a quote* | future | the young King | King's bride |  |  | still |  | 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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