--- title: Next morning the king sent his people out to seek the track, but it… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Next morning the king sent his people out to seek the track, but it was all in vain, for in every street poor children were sitting, picking up peas, and saying: ‘It must have rained peas, last night.’ Who acts: king, track, poor children. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, track, poor children), 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:pg2591:46:59 # text = Next morning the king sent his people out to seek the track, but it was all in vain, for in every street poor children were sitting, picking up peas, and saying: ‘It must have rained peas, last night.’ 1 Next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl:unmarked _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 sent send VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 8 out out ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 seek seek VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 advcl _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 track track NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 14 but but CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 16 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 17 all all ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 vain vain ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 21 for for SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 24 det _ _ 24 street street NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 25 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 27 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 sitting sit VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 picking pick VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 28 advcl _ _ 31 up up ADP RP _ 30 compound:prt _ _ 32 peas pea NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 28 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 : : PUNCT : _ 41 punct _ _ 37 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 41 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj:pass _ _ 39 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 40 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 41 aux _ _ 41 rained rain VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 42 amod _ _ 42 peas pea NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 44 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 45 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 47 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **send out** | past | the king | rained peas and last night | king's people | | morning | out *property* | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent people=Destination pea=Theme | | 2 | **seek** | to-infinitive | the king *not said here* | the track | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent track=Theme | | 3 | **is** | past | track | | | | | all, vain *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **sit** | past · progressive | poor children | | | every street | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in street=Location | | 5 | **pick up** | gerund | poor children *not said here* | peas | | | | | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pea=Topic | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | poor children *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **rain** | must · perfect · passive | | It | | | | | tree rules | 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 58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/46/58/) - next →: [sentence 60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/46/60/) - ↑ back to [The Blue Light](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/46/)