--- title: Then the King said, "You have spoken your own sentence"; and orderin… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics description: Then the King said, "You have spoken your own sentence"; and ordering a cask to be fetched, he caused the old woman and her daughter to be put into it, and the bottom nailed up. Who acts: King, You, bottom, your. 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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 (King, You, bottom, your), 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:pg11027:24:85 # text = Then the King said, "You have spoken your own sentence"; and ordering a cask to be fetched, he caused the old woman and her daughter to be put into it, and the bottom nailed up. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 8 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 spoken speak VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 4 ccomp _ _ 10 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 11 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 sentence sentence NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 16 ordering order VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 24 advcl _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 cask cask NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 20 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 21 aux:pass _ _ 21 fetched fetch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 23 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 caused cause VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 32 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 33 aux:pass _ _ 33 put put VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 advcl _ _ 34 into into ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 bottom bottom NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 40 nailed nail VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ _ 41 up up ADP RP _ 40 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the King | | | | then | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **speak** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present · perfect | You | your own sentence | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **order** | gerund | King *not said here* | a cask | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cask=Theme | | 4 | **fetch** | to-infinitive · passive | King *not said here* | a cask *not said here* | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP» | | 5 | **cause** | past | King | the old woman and woman's daughter | | | | | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition woman=Patient | | 6 | **put** | to-infinitive · passive | King *not said here* | | | cask | | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP» | | 7 | **nail up** | participle | the bottom | | | | | | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 8 | **sentence** *in a quote* | | your | | | | | | nom sentence «communication 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 84](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/24/84/) - next →: [sentence 86](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/24/86/) - ↑ back to [The Three Little Men in the Wood](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/24/)