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title: Then the third son offered to keep watch; but the gardener at first… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the third son offered to keep watch; but the gardener at first would not let him, for fear some harm should come to him: however, at last he consented, and the young man laid himself under the tree to watch. Who acts: third son, gardener, harm, son. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob 
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Bird, sentence 6

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Then the third son offered to keep watch; but the gardener at first would not let him, for fear some harm should come to him: however, at last he consented, and the young man laid himself under the tree to watch.

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**Who acts:** third son, gardener, harm, son, young man · **What happens:** offer, keep, not let, come, consent, lay · **To what, where:** watch, son, last, 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 (third son, gardener, harm, son), 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:pg2591:2:6
# text = Then the third son offered to keep watch; but the gardener at first would not let him, for fear some harm should come to him: however, at last he consented, and the young man laid himself under the tree to watch.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	amod	_	_
4	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	offered	offer	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	watch	watch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	gardener	gardener	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	17	obl	_	_
15	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
22	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	23	det	_	_
23	harm	harm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
24	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
29	however	however	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
31	at	at	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	last	last	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
33	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	consented	consent	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
40	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	conj	_	_
41	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	40	obj	_	_
42	under	under	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
45	to	to	PART	TO	_	46	mark	_	_
46	watch	watch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **offer** | participle | the third son |  |  |  | then |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **keep** | to-infinitive | the third son *not said here* | watch |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent watch=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **let** | would | the gardener | son |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Theme at first=Asset |
| 4 | **come** | should | some harm |  | son |  |  | for fear | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **consent** | past | son |  |  | last |  | however *property* | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **lay** | past | the young man | son |  | the tree |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme under tree=Destination |
| 7 | **watch** | to-infinitive | the young man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |

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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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