--- title: Then the king was obliged to keep his word, and away went the young… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Then the king was obliged to keep his word, and away went the young man and the princess; and the fox came and said to him, ‘We will have all three, the princess, the horse, and the bird.’ Who acts: fox, We, king. 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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 (fox, We, king), 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:pg2591:2:51 # text = Then the king was obliged to keep his word, and away went the young man and the princess; and the fox came and said to him, ‘We will have all three, the princess, the horse, and the bird.’ 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 5 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 obliged oblige VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 advcl _ _ 8 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 away away ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 27 to to ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 We we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 32 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 ccomp _ _ 34 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 35 det _ _ 35 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 33 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 47 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **oblige** | past · passive | | the king | | | then | | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 2 | **keep** | to-infinitive | | king's word | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme | | 3 | **go** | past | | the young man and the princess | | | | away *property* | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location man=Theme | | 4 | **come** | past | the fox | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the fox *not said here* | | fox | | | | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to he=Experiencer clause=Topic | | 6 | **have** | future | We | all three | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent three=Patient | | 7 | **word** | | king | | | | | | nom word «communication 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 50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/2/50/) - next →: [sentence 52](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/2/52/) - ↑ back to [The Golden Bird](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/2/)