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title: Then the King cried out, "Oh, my most trusty John, pardon, pardon; l… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the King cried out, "Oh, my most trusty John, pardon, pardon; lead him away!" Who acts: 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 92

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Then the King cried out, "Oh, my most trusty John, pardon, pardon; lead him away!"

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**Who acts:** King · **What happens:** cry out, lead away · **To what, where:** trusty John, John · **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 (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:pg11027:16:92
# text = Then the King cried out, "Oh, my most trusty John, pardon, pardon; lead him away!"
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	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	13	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
11	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	12	advmod	_	_
12	trusty	trusty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	pardon	pardon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	pardon	pardon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
19	lead	lead	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	away	away	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry out** *speech: express* | past | the King | my trusty John and pardon |  |  | then |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **lead away** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | John |  |  |  | away *property* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |

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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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