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title: The King had promised his daughter in marriage to whoever would vent… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: The King had promised his daughter in marriage to whoever would venture, and she was the most beautiful young lady that the sun ever shone upon. Who acts: King, wife. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 82

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The King had promised his daughter in marriage to whoever would venture, and she was the most beautiful young lady that the sun ever shone upon.

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**Who acts:** King, wife · **What happens:** promise, venture, be, shine · **To what, where:** daughter, marriage, beautiful young lady

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This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, wife), 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:pg11027:9:82
# text = The King had promised his daughter in marriage to whoever would venture, and she was the most beautiful young lady that the sun ever shone upon.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	promised	promise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	whoever	whoever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nmod	_	_
11	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	venture	venture	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
18	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	19	advmod	_	_
19	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	26	advmod	_	_
26	shone	shine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl:relcl	_	_
27	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past · perfect | the King |  | King's daughter | marriage to whoever |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme |
| 2 | **venture** | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | past | wife | the beautiful young lady |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **shine** | participle · passive |  | the beautiful young lady |  |  | ever |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |

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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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