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title: Then he called his son and told him that he had only a false bride;… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he called his son and told him that he had only a false bride; for that she was merely a waiting-maid, while the true bride stood by. Who acts: king, that. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Goose-girl, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Goose-girl, sentence 86

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Then he called his son and told him that he had only a false bride; for that she was merely a waiting-maid, while the true bride stood by.

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**Who acts:** king, that · **What happens:** call, tell, have, be, stand by · **To what, where:** son, king, false bride, waiting maid, true bride · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Goose-girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, that), 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:pg2591:15:86
# text = Then he called his son and told him that he had only a false bride; for that she was merely a waiting-maid, while the true bride stood by.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	iobj	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
12	only	only	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	false	false	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	nsubj	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
21	merely	merely	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	waiting	waiting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	maid	maid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
31	stood	stand	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	acl	_	_
32	by	by	ADP	IN	_	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | past | king |  | king's son |  | then |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent son=Recipient |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | king *not said here* |  | king |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **have** | past | king | a false bride |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bride=Patient |
| 4 | **is a** | past | that | a waiting maid and the true bride |  |  |  | merely *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **stand by** | participle |  | the true bride *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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