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title: So away he was taken; but as he stood on the steps he said, ‘My Lord… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So away he was taken; but as he stood on the steps he said, ‘My Lord Judge, grant me one last request.’ Who acts: judge. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Miser in the Bush, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Miser in the Bush, sentence 34

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So away he was taken; but as he stood on the steps he said, ‘My Lord Judge, grant me one last request.’

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**Who acts:** judge · **What happens:** take, stand, say, grant · **To what, where:** judge, Lord Judge, steps, one last request, me · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Miser in the Bush. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (judge), 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:pg2591:33:34
# text = So away he was taken; but as he stood on the steps he said, ‘My Lord Judge, grant me one last request.’
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	away	away	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Judge	Judge	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	grant	grant	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
23	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
25	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	request	request	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past · passive |  | judge |  |  |  | away *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination |
| 2 | **stand** | past | judge | My Lord Judge |  |  |  | on the steps | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on step=Location |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | judge | the steps *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent step=Topic |
| 4 | **grant** | infinitive | judge *not said here* | one last request | me |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent i=Goal request=Theme |

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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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