---
title: The ecclesiastics recognized therein the token from above, and asked… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The ecclesiastics recognized therein the token from above, and asked him on the spot if he would be pope. Who acts: ecclesiastics, Pope. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Three Languages, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/41/34/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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 Three Languages](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/41/) / 34

# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Three Languages, sentence 34

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The ecclesiastics recognized therein the token from above, and asked him on the spot if he would be pope.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** ecclesiastics, Pope · **What happens:** recognize, ask, be · **To what, where:** token, Pope, spot

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Three Languages. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ecclesiastics, Pope), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg2591:41:34
# text = The ecclesiastics recognized therein the token from above, and asked him on the spot if he would be pope.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ecclesiastics	ecclesiastic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	recognized	recognize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	therein	therein	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	token	token	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	above	above	ADV	RB	_	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	iobj	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	cop	_	_
20	pope	pope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **recognize** | past | the ecclesiastics | the token |  |  |  | therein *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer token=Stimulus |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past |  |  | Pope | the spot |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 3 | **is a** *a condition, not said to happen* | would | Pope | pope |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/41/33/)
- next →: [sentence 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/41/35/)
- ↑ back to [The Three Languages](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/41/)