--- title: They went and announced him to the king, and gave it as their opinio… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: They went and announced him to the king, and gave it as their opinion that if war should break out, this would be a weighty and useful man who ought on no account to be allowed to depart. Who acts: people, war, this. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Valiant Little Tailor, with --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/19/71/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Grimms' Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/) / [The Valiant Little Tailor](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/19/) / 71 # Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 71 They went and announced him to the king, and gave it as their opinion that if war should break out, this would be a weighty and useful man who ought on no account to be allowed to depart. **Who acts:** people, war, this · **What happens:** go, announce, give, break out, be, allow · **To what, where:** tailor, king, warrior, weighty man This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Valiant Little Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, war, this), 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:pg2591:19:71 # text = They went and announced him to the king, and gave it as their opinion that if war should break out, this would be a weighty and useful man who ought on no account to be allowed to depart. 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 announced announce VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 5 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 as as ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 opinion opinion NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 16 that that SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 17 if if SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 18 war war NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 19 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 break break VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 advcl _ _ 21 out out ADP RP _ 20 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 23 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 30 nsubj _ _ 24 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 25 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 30 cop _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 27 weighty weighty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 useful useful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 conj _ _ 30 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 31 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 35 nsubj _ _ 32 ought ought AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 33 on on ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 35 det _ _ 35 account account NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 conj _ _ 36 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 37 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 38 aux:pass _ _ 38 allowed allow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 35 acl _ _ 39 to to PART TO _ 40 mark _ _ 40 depart depart VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | people | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **announce** *speech: other* | past | people *not said here* | tailor | the king | | | | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Theme to king=Recipient | | 3 | **give** | past | people *not said here* | warrior | | | | as people's opinion | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 4 | **break out** *a condition, not said to happen* | should | war | | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **is a** | would | this | a weighty man and no account | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **allow** | to-infinitive · passive | this *not said here* | | | | | | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: clause=Eventuality | | 7 | **depart** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | this *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **opine** | | people | | | | | | nom opinion «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | 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 70](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/19/70/) - next →: [sentence 72](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/19/72/) - ↑ back to [The Valiant Little Tailor](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/19/)