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title: He was as well received as the others had been, and the king ordered… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He was as well received as the others had been, and the king ordered fine royal robes to be given him; and when the evening came he was led to the outer chamber. Who acts: others, king, evening. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, with its dependency tr
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 15

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He was as well received as the others had been, and the king ordered fine royal robes to be given him; and when the evening came he was led to the outer chamber.

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**Who acts:** others, king, evening · **What happens:** receive, be, order, give, come, lead · **To what, where:** king, fine royal robes, outer chamber

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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 (others, king, evening), 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:pg2591:10:15
# text = He was as well received as the others had been, and the king ordered fine royal robes to be given him; and when the evening came he was led to the outer chamber.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
3	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	5	cc	_	_
4	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	fixed	_	_
5	received	receive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	been	be	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
16	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	robes	robe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	28	mark	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	led	lead	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	parataxis	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	outer	outer	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	chamber	chamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **receive** | past · passive |  | king |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **be** | past · perfect | the others |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **order** | past | the king | fine royal robes |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent robe=Theme |
| 4 | **give** | to-infinitive · passive | the king *not said here* |  | king |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: he=Theme |
| 5 | **come** | past | the evening |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **lead** | past · passive |  | king |  | the outer chamber |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to chamber=Destination |

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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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