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title: The same thing happened the second and third night: so the king orde… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The same thing happened the second and third night: so the king ordered his head to be cut off. Who acts: same thing, king, head. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 8

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The same thing happened the second and third night: so the king ordered his head to be cut off.

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**Who acts:** same thing, king, head · **What happens:** happen, order, cut off · **To what, where:** head

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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 (same thing, king, head), 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:pg2591:10:8
# text = The same thing happened the second and third night: so the king ordered his head to be cut off.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	9	amod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	conj	_	_
9	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	xcomp	_	_
20	off	off	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | past | the same thing |  |  |  | night |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **order** | past | the king | king's head |  |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent head=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **cut off** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive · passive | king's head *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V» |

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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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