--- title: What the little fish had foretold soon came to pass; and the queen h… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics description: What the little fish had foretold soon came to pass; and the queen had a little girl who was so very beautiful that the king could not cease looking on her for joy, and determined to hold a great feast. Who acts: little fish, queen, little girl, king. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob G --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/18/3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Grimm's Fairy Stories](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/) / [Briar Rose](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/18/) / 3 # Grimm's Fairy Stories, Briar Rose, sentence 3 What the little fish had foretold soon came to pass; and the queen had a little girl who was so very beautiful that the king could not cease looking on her for joy, and determined to hold a great feast. **Who acts:** little fish, queen, little girl, king · **What happens:** foretell, come, pass, have, be, not cease · **To what, where:** little girl, great feast This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Briar Rose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little fish, queen, little girl, king), 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:pg11027:18:3 # text = What the little fish had foretold soon came to pass; and the queen had a little girl who was so very beautiful that the king could not cease looking on her for joy, and determined to hold a great feast. 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 8 nsubj _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 fish fish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 5 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 foretold foretell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 1 acl:relcl _ _ 7 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 6 advmod _ _ 8 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 pass pass VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ; ; PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 queen queen NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 19 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 23 nsubj _ _ 20 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 21 so so ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 22 very very ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 acl:relcl _ _ 24 that that SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 27 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 28 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 29 advmod _ _ 29 cease cease VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 advcl _ _ 30 looking look VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 29 xcomp _ _ 31 on on ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 33 for for ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 joy joy NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 determined determined ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 conj _ _ 38 to to PART TO _ 39 mark _ _ 39 hold hold VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 xcomp _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 41 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 feast feast NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **foretell** | past · perfect | the little fish | | | | | soon *property* | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **come** | past | | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **pass** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **have** | past | the queen | a little girl | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Patient | | 5 | **is** | past | a little girl | | | | | beautiful *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **not** **cease** | could | the king | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 7 | **look** | gerund | the king *not said here* | | | | | on queen's joy | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on joy=Theme | | 8 | **hold** | to-infinitive | a little girl *not said here* | a great feast | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feast=Theme | | 9 | **joy** | | queen | | | | | | nom joy «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | 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 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/18/2/) - next →: [sentence 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/18/4/) - ↑ back to [Briar Rose](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/18/)