--- title: Then the widow said to the man's daughter, "Do you hear, tell your f… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics description: Then the widow said to the man's daughter, "Do you hear, tell your father I wish to marry him, and you shall every morning wash in milk and drink wine, but my daughter shall wash in water and drink water." Who acts: widow, daughter. 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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 (widow, daughter), 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:pg11027:24:3 # text = Then the widow said to the man's daughter, "Do you hear, tell your father I wish to marry him, and you shall every morning wash in milk and drink wine, but my daughter shall wash in water and drink water." 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 widow widow NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 8 's 's PART POS _ 7 case _ _ 9 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 " " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 Do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 13 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 hear hear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ _ 17 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 iobj _ _ 19 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 wish wish VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 ccomp _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 marry marry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 xcomp _ _ 23 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 26 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 27 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 28 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 30 det _ _ 29 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 wash wash NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 parataxis _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 milk milk NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 drink drink VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ _ 35 wine wine NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 37 but but CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 38 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nsubj _ _ 40 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 41 wash wash VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ _ 42 in in ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 45 drink drink VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 41 conj _ _ 46 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 41 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 48 " " PUNCT '' _ 41 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the widow | | the man's daughter | | then | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to daughter=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **hear** *in a quote* | present · do-support | the man's daughter *= daughter* | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive | the man's daughter *= daughter* *not said here* | | your father | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent father=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **wish** *in a quote* | present | the widow *= widow* | | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 5 | **marry** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | the widow *= widow* *not said here* | widow | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | | 6 | **wash** *in a quote* | shall | the man's daughter *= daughter* | | | milk | | | tree rules | | 7 | **drink** *in a quote* | infinitive | the man's daughter *= daughter* *not said here* | wine | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wine=Patient | | 8 | **wash** *in a quote* | shall | my daughter | | | water | | | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **drink** *in a quote* | infinitive | my daughter *not said here* | water | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=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 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/24/2/) - next →: [sentence 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/24/4/) - ↑ back to [The Three Little Men in the Wood](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/24/)