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title: The counsel pleased the king, and he sent one of his courtiers to th… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The counsel pleased the king, and he sent one of his courtiers to the little tailor to offer him military service when he awoke. Who acts: counsel, tailor. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Valiant Little Tailor, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 72

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The counsel pleased the king, and he sent one of his courtiers to the little tailor to offer him military service when he awoke.

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**Who acts:** counsel, tailor · **What happens:** send, offer, awake · **To what, where:** one, little tailor, military service, tailor

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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 (counsel, tailor), 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:pg2591:19:72
# text = The counsel pleased the king, and he sent one of his courtiers to the little tailor to offer him military service when he awoke.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	counsel	counsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	courtiers	courtier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	tailor	tailor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	offer	offer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	military	military	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	25	advmod	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	awoke	awake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past | counsel | one of king's courtiers | the little tailor |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent one=Theme to tailor=Destination |
| 2 | **offer** | to-infinitive | counsel *not said here* | military service | tailor |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal service=Theme |
| 3 | **awake** | past | tailor |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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