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title: The king became very angry at this, and ordered the gardener to keep… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The king became very angry at this, and ordered the gardener to keep watch all night under the tree. Who acts: king. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Bird, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Bird, sentence 3

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The king became very angry at this, and ordered the gardener to keep watch all night under the tree.

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**Who acts:** king · **What happens:** become, order, keep, watch · **To what, where:** gardener, tree

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Bird. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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:pg2591:2:3
# text = The king became very angry at this, and ordered the gardener to keep watch all night under the tree.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	gardener	gardener	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
15	watch	watch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
16	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
17	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl:unmarked	_	_
18	under	under	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | the king |  |  |  |  | angry *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **order** | past | the king *not said here* |  | the gardener |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent gardener=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **keep** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the king *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **watch** | infinitive | the king *not said here* |  |  | the tree | night |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under tree=Location |

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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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