--- title: The King let him take these things by day into the castle, and when… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics description: The King let him take these things by day into the castle, and when it was evening the youth went in and made himself a bright fire in one of the rooms, and, placing his cutting-board and knife near it, he sat down upon his lathe. " Who acts: King, youth, castle. 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" **Who acts:** King, youth, castle · **What happens:** let, take, be, go in, make, place · **To what, where:** youth, things, castle, evening, cutting board, lathe 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, youth, castle), 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:pg11027:9:88 # text = The King let him take these things by day into the castle, and when it was evening the youth went in and made himself a bright fire in one of the rooms, and, placing his cutting-board and knife near it, he sat down upon his lathe. " 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 let let VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 7 det _ _ 7 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 8 by by ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 10 into into ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 castle castle NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 15 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 18 advmod _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 18 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl:unmarked _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 youth youth NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 22 in in ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 25 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 24 obj _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 bright bright ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 24 obl _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 rooms room NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 37 placing place VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 48 advcl _ _ 38 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 39 cutting cutting NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 40 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 39 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 board board NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 43 knife knife NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 conj _ _ 44 near near ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 45 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 46 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 47 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 48 nsubj _ _ 48 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 49 down down ADV RB _ 48 advmod _ _ 50 upon upon ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 51 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 52 nmod:poss _ _ 52 lathe lathe NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 53 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ 54 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **let** | past | the King | youth | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **take** | infinitive | youth *not said here* | this things | | the castle | day | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent thing=Theme into castle=Destination | | 3 | **is a** | past | castle | evening | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **go in** | past | the youth | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **make** | past | the youth *not said here* | youth | | | | in one of the rooms | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset himself=Beneficiary fire=Product | | 6 | **place** | gerund | youth *not said here* | youth's cutting board and knife near castle | | | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent board=Theme | | 7 | **sit down** | past | youth | | | youth's lathe | | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon lathe=Location | 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 87](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/9/87/) - next →: [sentence 89](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/9/89/) - ↑ back to [Oh, If I Could But Shiver!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/9/)