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title: At these words the King could hold back no longer, but, springing up… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: At these words the King could hold back no longer, but, springing up, cried, "You can be no other than my dear wife!" Who acts: King, You. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Little Brother and Sister, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Little Brother and Sister, sentence 75

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At these words the King could hold back no longer, but, springing up, cried, "You can be no other than my dear wife!"

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**Who acts:** King, You · **What happens:** hold back, spring up, cry, be · **To what, where:** words · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Little Brother and Sister. 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), 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:pg11027:7:75
# text = At these words the King could hold back no longer, but, springing up, cried, "You can be no other than my dear wife!"
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	back	back	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	no	no	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	springing	spring	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
15	up	up	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	cried	cry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
21	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	cop	_	_
23	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	24	det	_	_
24	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	parataxis	_	_
25	than	than	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold back** | could | the King |  |  | this words |  | long *property* | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **spring up** | gerund | the King *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | participle | the King *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | can | You |  |  |  |  | than my dear wife; other *property* | tree rules |

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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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