--- title: The King took the beautiful maiden upon his horse, and rode to his c… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics description: The King took the beautiful maiden upon his horse, and rode to his castle, where the wedding was celebrated with great splendor and she became Queen, and they lived together a long time; while the Fawn was taken care of and played about the castle garden. Who acts: King, horse, drops. 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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, horse, drops), 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:pg11027:7:49 # text = The King took the beautiful maiden upon his horse, and rode to his castle, where the wedding was celebrated with great splendor and she became Queen, and they lived together a long time; while the Fawn was taken care of and played about the castle garden. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 maiden maiden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 xcomp _ _ 7 upon upon ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 rode ride VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 castle castle NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 21 advmod _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 wedding wedding NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj:pass _ _ 20 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux:pass _ _ 21 celebrated celebrate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 acl:relcl _ _ 22 with with ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 splendor splendor NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 28 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 31 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 33 together together ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 37 ; ; PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 38 while while SCONJ IN _ 42 mark _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 Fawn Fawn PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 nsubj:pass _ _ 41 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 42 aux:pass _ _ 42 taken take VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 parataxis _ _ 43 care care NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obj _ _ 44 of of ADP IN _ 42 obl _ _ 45 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 46 played play VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 42 conj _ _ 47 about about ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 48 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 49 castle castle NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 compound _ _ 50 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | past | the King | | | | | maiden *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **ride** | past | | | | King's castle | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to castle=Trajectory | | 3 | **celebrate** | past · passive | | the wedding | | | | with great splendor | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 4 | **become** | past | horse | | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **live together** | past | drops *= drop* | | | | time | together *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **take** | past · passive | | the Fawn | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme care=Destination | | 7 | **play** | past | | | | | | about the castle garden | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: 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 48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/7/48/) - next →: [sentence 50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/7/50/) - ↑ back to [The Little Brother and Sister](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/7/)