--- title: Then the huntsman spoke further and said: ‘Father, will you see the… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Then the huntsman spoke further and said: ‘Father, will you see the maiden who brought me up so tenderly and who was afterwards to murder me, but did not do it, though her own life depended on it?’ Who acts: huntsman, you, maiden, own life. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Pin --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/31/56/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Grimms' Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/) / [The Pink](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/31/) / 56 # Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Pink, sentence 56 Then the huntsman spoke further and said: ‘Father, will you see the maiden who brought me up so tenderly and who was afterwards to murder me, but did not do it, though her own life depended on it?’ **Who acts:** huntsman, you, maiden, own life · **What happens:** speak, say, see up, bring, be, not do · **To what, where:** maiden, me · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (huntsman, you, maiden, own life), 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:pg2591:31:56 # text = Then the huntsman spoke further and said: ‘Father, will you see the maiden who brought me up so tenderly and who was afterwards to murder me, but did not do it, though her own life depended on it?’ 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 huntsman huntsman NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 spoke speak VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 further far ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 4 advmod _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 : : PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 9 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 Father Father PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 vocative _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 12 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 13 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 ccomp _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 maiden maiden NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 18 nsubj _ _ 18 brought bring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 acl:relcl _ _ 19 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 up up ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ _ 21 so so ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 tenderly tenderly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 xcomp _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 24 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 28 nsubj _ _ 25 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 26 afterwards afterwards ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 murder murder VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ _ 29 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 but but CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 32 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 33 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 34 advmod _ _ 34 do do VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 14 parataxis _ _ 35 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 37 though though SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ _ 38 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 39 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nsubj _ _ 41 depended depend VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 conj _ _ 42 on on ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 ? ? PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 45 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | the huntsman | | | | then | far *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the huntsman *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **see up** | future | you | the maiden | | | | Father *vocative*; tenderly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer maiden=Stimulus | | 4 | **bring** | past | the maiden | | me | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination | | 5 | **is** | past | | | | | | afterwards, murder *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **not** **do** | past · do-support | | maiden | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | | 7 | **depend** | past | dog's own life | | | | | on maiden | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent on it=Theme | 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 55](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/31/55/) - next →: [sentence 57](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/31/57/) - ↑ back to [The Pink](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/31/)