--- title: At first the King refused to spare him, but he gave way, and the Pri… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics description: At first the King refused to spare him, but he gave way, and the Prince set out on the same road as the elder one had taken, and met also the same Dwarf, who stopped him and asked him, "Whither ride you so hastily?" " Who acts: King, Prince, same Dwarf. 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" **Who acts:** King, Prince, same Dwarf · **What happens:** refuse, not spare, give, set out, take, meet · **To what, where:** King, way, same road, elder one, same Dwarf, Prince · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Water of Life. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, Prince, same Dwarf), 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:pg11027:17:11 # text = At first the King refused to spare him, but he gave way, and the Prince set out on the same road as the elder one had taken, and met also the same Dwarf, who stopped him and asked him, "Whither ride you so hastily?" " 1 At at ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 5 obl _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 refused refuse VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 spare spare VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 8 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 but but CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 13 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 set set VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 19 out out ADP RP _ 18 compound:prt _ _ 20 on on ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 24 as as SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 elder elder ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj:pass _ _ 28 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 taken take VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 met meet VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 33 also also ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 Dwarf Dwarf PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 39 nsubj _ _ 39 stopped stop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 acl:relcl _ _ 40 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 obj _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 42 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 conj _ _ 43 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 45 " " PUNCT `` _ 47 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 46 Whither whither ADV WRB PronType=Int 47 advmod _ _ 47 ride ride VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 42 parataxis _ _ 48 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 47 obj _ _ 49 so so ADV RB _ 50 advmod _ _ 50 hastily hastily ADV RB _ 47 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 51 ? ? PUNCT . _ 47 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 52 " " PUNCT '' _ 47 punct _ _ 53 " " PUNCT '' _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **refuse** | past | the King | | | | | | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **not** **spare** | to-infinitive | the King *not said here* | King | | | | | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Asset | | 3 | **give** | past | King | way | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme | | 4 | **set out** | past | the Prince | | | the same road | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **take** | past · perfect · passive | | the elder one | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 6 | **meet** | past | | the same Dwarf | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dwarf=Co-Agent | | 7 | **stop** | past | the same Dwarf | Prince | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector he=Eventuality | | 8 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | the same Dwarf *not said here* | | Prince | | | | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 9 | **ride** *in a quote* | infinitive | | Prince | | | | hastily, whither *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | 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 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/17/10/) - next →: [sentence 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/17/12/) - ↑ back to [The Water of Life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/17/)