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title: When the soldier heard all this good counsel, he determined to try h… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When the soldier heard all this good counsel, he determined to try his luck: so he went to the king, and said he was willing to undertake the task. Who acts: soldier, king. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 14

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When the soldier heard all this good counsel, he determined to try his luck: so he went to the king, and said he was willing to undertake the task.

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**Who acts:** soldier, king · **What happens:** hear, determine, try, go, say, be · **To what, where:** good counsel, luck, task · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Twelve Dancing Princesses. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soldier, king), 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:pg2591:10:14
# text = When the soldier heard all this good counsel, he determined to try his luck: so he went to the king, and said he was willing to undertake the task.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
5	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	8	det:predet	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
7	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	counsel	counsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	determined	determine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	luck	luck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	willing	willing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	ccomp	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	undertake	undertake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	task	task	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | the soldier | all good counsel |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer counsel=Stimulus |
| 2 | **determine** | past | king |  |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **try** | to-infinitive | king *not said here* | king's luck |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent luck=Eventuality |
| 4 | **go** | past | king |  |  |  |  | to the king | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to king=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | king *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is** | past | king |  |  |  |  | willing *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **undertake** | to-infinitive | king *not said here* | the task |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent task=Eventuality |

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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:** «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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