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title: The son said: ‘Most gracious father, I will show her to you in the f… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The son said: ‘Most gracious father, I will show her to you in the form of a beautiful flower,’ and he thrust his hand into his pocket and brought forth the pink, and placed it on the royal table, and it was so beautiful that the king had never seen one to equal it. Who acts: son, Most gracious fath
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Pink, sentence 58

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The son said: ‘Most gracious father, I will show her to you in the form of a beautiful flower,’ and he thrust his hand into his pocket and brought forth the pink, and placed it on the royal table, and it was so beautiful that the king had never seen one to equal it.

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**Who acts:** son, Most gracious father, father, hand, king · **What happens:** say, show, thrust, bring, place, be · **To what, where:** dog, hand, pocket, pink, royal table, one · **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 (son, Most gracious father, father, hand), 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:pg2591:31:58
# text = The son said: ‘Most gracious father, I will show her to you in the form of a beautiful flower,’ and he thrust his hand into his pocket and brought forth the pink, and placed it on the royal table, and it was so beautiful that the king had never seen one to equal it.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
5	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	amod	_	_
7	gracious	gracious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
13	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	iobj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	thrust	thrust	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	into	into	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
35	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	pink	pink	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	placed	place	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
41	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	obj	_	_
42	on	on	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
48	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj	_	_
49	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	cop	_	_
50	so	so	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	_
51	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	conj	_	_
52	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	57	mark	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	nsubj	_	_
55	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	57	aux	_	_
56	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	57	advmod	_	_
57	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	51	advcl	_	_
58	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	57	obj	_	_
59	to	to	PART	TO	_	60	mark	_	_
60	equal	equal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	57	advcl	_	_
61	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	60	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the son |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **show** | future | Most gracious father |  | dog |  |  | to you; in the form of a beautiful flower | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent she=Patient to you=Recipient in form=Topic |
| 3 | **thrust** | past | father | father's hand |  | father's pocket |  |  | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme |
| 4 | **bring** | past | father *not said here* | the pink |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent pink=Theme |
| 5 | **place** | past | the son *not said here* | hand |  | the royal table |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on table=Destination |
| 6 | **is** | past | hand |  |  |  |  | beautiful *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **not** **see** | past · perfect | the king | one |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus |
| 8 | **equal** | to-infinitive | the king *not said here* | hand |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **form** |  |  | a beautiful flower |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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