--- title: Then the old King said: ‘Be easy, he shall be punished,’ and he at o… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Then the old King said: ‘Be easy, he shall be punished,’ and he at once flew with the Queen to the bear’s cave, and called in: ‘Old Growler, why have you insulted my children? Who acts: old King, King, you. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old King, King, you), 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:pg2591:12:16 # text = Then the old King said: ‘Be easy, he shall be punished,’ and he at once flew with the Queen to the bear’s cave, and called in: ‘Old Growler, why have you insulted my children? 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 5 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 7 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 Be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 9 cop _ _ 9 easy easy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj:pass _ _ 12 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 13 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 14 aux:pass _ _ 14 punished punish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 18 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 19 at at ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 21 obl _ _ 21 flew fly VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 22 with with ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 25 to to ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 bear bear NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 28 ’s 's PART POS _ 27 case _ _ 29 cave cave NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 conj _ _ 33 in in ADP RP _ 32 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 34 : : PUNCT : _ 37 punct _ _ 35 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 37 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 Old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 Growler growler NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 39 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 42 advmod _ _ 40 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 42 aux _ _ 41 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 42 insulted insult VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 37 acl:relcl _ _ 43 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 44 nmod:poss _ _ 44 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the old King | | | | then | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | infinitive | | | | | | easy *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **punish** | shall · passive | | King | | | | | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 4 | **fly** | past | King | | | | | with the Queen; to the bear's cave | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent at once=Location | | 5 | **call in** *speech: assert* | participle | the old King *not said here* | | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **insult** | present · perfect | you | my children | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus child=Experiencer | 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:** «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. - ← previous: [sentence 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/12/15/) - next →: [sentence 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/12/17/) - ↑ back to [The Willow-wren and the Bear](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/12/)