--- title: The king comforted her and said: ‘Leave your bedroom door open this… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: The king comforted her and said: ‘Leave your bedroom door open this night, and my servants shall stand outside, and when he has fallen asleep shall go in, bind him, and take him on board a ship which shall carry him into the wide world.’ Who acts: king, servants, ship. 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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 (king, servants, ship), 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:pg2591:19:136 # text = The king comforted her and said: ‘Leave your bedroom door open this night, and my servants shall stand outside, and when he has fallen asleep shall go in, bind him, and take him on board a ship which shall carry him into the wide world.’ 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 comforted comfort VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 8 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 Leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 ccomp _ _ 10 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 11 bedroom bedroom NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 13 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 xcomp _ _ 14 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 15 det _ _ 15 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 18 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 servants servant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 20 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 stand stand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 22 outside outside ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 25 when when SCONJ WRB _ 28 mark _ _ 26 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 27 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 fallen fall VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 31 advcl _ _ 29 asleep asleep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 xcomp _ _ 30 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 go go VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 32 in in ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 34 bind bind VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 35 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 take take VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 39 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obj _ _ 40 on on ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 41 board board ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 ship ship NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 44 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 46 nsubj _ _ 45 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 46 aux _ _ 46 carry carry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 43 acl:relcl _ _ 47 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 46 obj _ _ 48 into into ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 49 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 50 wide wide ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 51 amod _ _ 51 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 52 . . PUNCT . _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 53 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 38 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **comfort** | past | the king | queen | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the king *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **leave** | infinitive | | your bedroom door | | | night | open *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Theme | | 4 | **stand** | shall | my servants | | | | | outside *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **fall** | present · perfect | king | | | | | asleep *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **go in** | shall | | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **bind** | infinitive | | king | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | | 8 | **take** | infinitive | | | king | a ship | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination | | 9 | **carry** | shall | a ship | king | | the wide world | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | 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 135](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/19/135/) - next →: [sentence 137](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/19/137/) - ↑ back to [The Valiant Little Tailor](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/19/)