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title: Now the King was in great happiness, but he hid the Queen in a chamb… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Now the King was in great happiness, but he hid the Queen in a chamber until the Sunday when the child was to be christened; and when all was finished he asked, "What ought to be done to one who takes another out of a bed and throws her into the river?" " Who acts: King. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Three Little Men in the Wood, sentence 83

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Now the King was in great happiness, but he hid the Queen in a chamber until the Sunday when the child was to be christened; and when all was finished he asked, "What ought to be done to one who takes another out of a bed and throws her into the river?" "

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**Who acts:** King · **What happens:** be, hide, christen, finish, ask, do · **To what, where:** great happiness, Queen, chamber, child, all, one · **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), 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:pg11027:24:83
# text = Now the King was in great happiness, but he hid the Queen in a chamber until the Sunday when the child was to be christened; and when all was finished he asked, "What ought to be done to one who takes another out of a bed and throws her into the river?" "
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	happiness	happiness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	hid	hide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	chamber	chamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	until	until	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
20	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	26	advmod	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	christened	christen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
29	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	32	advmod	_	_
30	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	finished	finish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	advcl	_	_
33	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
36	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	41	obj	_	_
38	ought	ought	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
39	to	to	PART	TO	_	41	mark	_	_
40	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	aux:pass	_	_
41	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	ccomp	_	_
42	to	to	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	41	obl	_	_
44	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	45	nsubj	_	_
45	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	43	acl:relcl	_	_
46	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	45	obj	_	_
47	out	out	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
48	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
52	throws	throw	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	45	conj	_	_
53	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	obj	_	_
54	into	into	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	34	punct	_	_
59	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the King |  |  | great happiness |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hide** | past | King | the Queen |  | a chamber | sunday |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent queen=Patient in chamber=Location |
| 3 | **christen** | past · passive |  | the child |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Result |
| 4 | **finish** | past · passive |  | all |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality |
| 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | King |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **do** *not said to happen, in a quote* | ought · passive |  |  | one |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: what=Eventuality |
| 7 | **take** *in a quote* | present |  | another |  | a bed |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent another=Theme out bed=Initial\_Location |
| 8 | **throw** *in a quote* | present |  | Queen |  |  |  | into the river *result* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer she=Theme into river=Result |

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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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