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title: The King was rejoiced above measure at the sight of this, but still… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: The King was rejoiced above measure at the sight of this, but still he was not satisfied, but, leading the maiden into another still larger room, full of straw as the others, he said, "This you must spin during the night; but if you accomplish it you shall be my bride." " Who acts: King, This, you. 
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Three Little Men in the Wood, sentence 104

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The King was rejoiced above measure at the sight of this, but still he was not satisfied, but, leading the maiden into another still larger room, full of straw as the others, he said, "This you must spin during the night; but if you accomplish it you shall be my bride." "

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**Who acts:** King, This, you · **What happens:** rejoice, not be, lead, say, spin, accomplish · **To what, where:** King, measure, maiden, larger room, room, bride · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Three Little Men in the Wood. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, This, you), 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:pg11027:24:104
# text = The King was rejoiced above measure at the sight of this, but still he was not satisfied, but, leading the maiden into another still larger room, full of straw as the others, he said, "This you must spin during the night; but if you accomplish it you shall be my bride." "
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	rejoiced	rejoice	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	above	above	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	measure	measure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	still	still	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	satisfied	satisfied	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	leading	lead	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	39	ccomp	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	into	into	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	29	det	_	_
27	still	still	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	larger	large	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	29	amod	_	_
29	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	straw	straw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
34	as	as	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
38	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
39	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
41	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	45	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	45	nsubj	_	_
43	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
44	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	45	aux	_	_
45	spin	spin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	ccomp	_	_
46	during	during	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
50	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	59	cc	_	_
51	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	53	mark	_	_
52	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	53	nsubj	_	_
53	accomplish	accomplish	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	59	advcl	_	_
54	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	obj	_	_
55	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	59	nsubj	_	_
56	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	59	aux	_	_
57	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	59	cop	_	_
58	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	59	nmod:poss	_	_
59	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	59	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	59	punct	_	_
62	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rejoice** | past · passive |  | the King |  | measure |  | at the sight of this | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **is** | past | King |  |  |  | still | satisfied *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **lead** | gerund |  | the maiden |  | another larger room |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent maiden=Theme into room=Destination |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | King |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **spin** *in a quote* | must | This |  |  |  | night |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **accomplish** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | you | room |  |  |  |  | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
| 7 | **is a** *in a quote* | shall | you | my bride |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **sight** |  |  | this |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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