--- title: Then the other servants of the King, who were not on good terms with… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics description: Then the other servants of the King, who were not on good terms with the faithful John, exclaimed, "How shameful to kill the beautiful creature, which might have borne the King to the castle!" Who acts: other servants. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other servants), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg11027:16:77 # text = Then the other servants of the King, who were not on good terms with the faithful John, exclaimed, "How shameful to kill the beautiful creature, which might have borne the King to the castle!" 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 servants servant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 9 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 14 nsubj _ _ 10 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 11 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 12 on on ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 terms term NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 15 with with ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 faithful faithful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 John John PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 exclaimed exclaim VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 " " PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 24 advmod _ _ 24 shameful shameful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 parataxis _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 kill kill VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 csubj _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 creature creature NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 34 nsubj:pass _ _ 32 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 33 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 34 aux _ _ 34 borne bear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 29 acl:relcl _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 37 to to ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 castle castle NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 ! ! PUNCT . _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is a** | past | the other servants of the King and good terms | good terms | | | | with the faithful John | tree rules | | 2 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | participle | | the faithful John *not said here* | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **kill** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | the beautiful creature | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent creature=Theme | | 4 | **bear** *in a quote* | might · perfect · passive | | the beautiful creature | | | | to the castle | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary king=Patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 76](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/16/76/) - next →: [sentence 78](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/16/78/) - ↑ back to [Faithful John](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/16/)