--- title: When they had eaten and drunk, and were very merry, the old king tol… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics description: When they had eaten and drunk, and were very merry, the old king told all the story, as one that he had once heard of, and asked the true waiting-maid what she thought ought to be done to anyone who would behave thus. Who acts: dresses, old king, king, maid. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/6/85/) [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/) / [The Goose-girl](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/6/) / 85 # Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Goose-girl, sentence 85 When they had eaten and drunk, and were very merry, the old king told all the story, as one that he had once heard of, and asked the true waiting-maid what she thought ought to be done to anyone who would behave thus. **Who acts:** dresses, old king, king, maid, anyone · **What happens:** eat, be, tell, hear, ask, think · **To what, where:** story, true waiting maid · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Goose-girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dresses, old king, king, maid), 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:pg11027:6:85 # text = When they had eaten and drunk, and were very merry, the old king told all the story, as one that he had once heard of, and asked the true waiting-maid what she thought ought to be done to anyone who would behave thus. 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 4 mark _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 eaten eat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 drunk drunk ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 9 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 10 very very ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 merry merry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 17 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 19 det:predet _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 as as ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 16 ccomp _ _ 23 that that SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 24 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 25 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 26 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 27 advmod _ _ 27 heard hear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 22 acl _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 33 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 34 waiting waiting NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 35 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 maid maid NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 37 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 43 obj _ _ 38 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 39 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 acl:relcl _ _ 40 ought ought AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ _ 41 to to PART TO _ 43 mark _ _ 42 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 43 aux:pass _ _ 43 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 ccomp _ _ 44 to to ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 45 anyone anyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 43 obl:agent _ _ 46 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 48 nsubj _ _ 47 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 48 aux _ _ 48 behave behave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 45 acl:relcl _ _ 49 thus thus ADV RB _ 48 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **eat** | past · perfect | dresses *= dress* | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | past | dresses *= dress* *not said here* | | | | | merry *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | the old king | all story | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient | | 4 | **hear** | past · perfect | king | | | | | once *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | the old king *not said here* | | the true waiting maid | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent maid=Recipient clause=Topic | | 6 | **think** *speech: other* | past | maid | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **do** *not said to happen* | ought · passive | anyone | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | | 8 | **behave** | would | | | | | | thus *property* | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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/pg11027/6/84/) - next →: [sentence 86](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/6/86/) - ↑ back to [The Goose-girl](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/6/)