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title: But the king replied: ‘She let my dear son be torn to pieces by wild… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But the king replied: ‘She let my dear son be torn to pieces by wild beasts; I will not have her named.’ Who acts: king, marshal, wild beasts, I. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Pink, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Pink, sentence 51

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But the king replied: ‘She let my dear son be torn to pieces by wild beasts; I will not have her named.’

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**Who acts:** king, marshal, wild beasts, I · **What happens:** reply, let, tear, not have, name · **To what, where:** dear son, pieces · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Pink. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, marshal, wild beasts, I), 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:pg2591:31:51
# text = But the king replied: ‘She let my dear son be torn to pieces by wild beasts; I will not have her named.’
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
6	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	let	let	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
9	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	torn	tear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	xcomp	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
24	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | the king |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **let** | past | marshal | my dear son |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **tear** | infinitive · passive | wild beasts |  |  | pieces |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to piece=Destination |
| 4 | **not** **have** | future | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **name** | participle | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: 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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