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title: The aged king ordered the cook to be torn in four pieces, but grief… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The aged king ordered the cook to be torn in four pieces, but grief consumed the king’s own heart, and he soon died. Who acts: aged king, grief. 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 63

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The aged king ordered the cook to be torn in four pieces, but grief consumed the king’s own heart, and he soon died.

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**Who acts:** aged king, grief · **What happens:** order, tear, consume, die · **To what, where:** cook, four pieces, own heart

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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 (aged king, grief), 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:pg2591:31:63
# text = The aged king ordered the cook to be torn in four pieces, but grief consumed the king’s own heart, and he soon died.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	aged	aged	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	cook	cook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	torn	tear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	consumed	consume	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	’s	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	26	advmod	_	_
26	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	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 | **order** | past | the aged king | the cook |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cook=Theme |
| 2 | **tear** | to-infinitive · passive | the aged king *not said here* |  |  | four pieces |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: in piece=Trajectory |
| 3 | **consume** | past | grief | the king's own heart |  |  |  |  | vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Asset |
| 4 | **die** | past | grief |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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