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title: The black manikin heard this plot, and at night when the soldier aga… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The black manikin heard this plot, and at night when the soldier again ordered him to bring the princess, revealed it to him, and told him that he knew of no expedient to counteract this stratagem, and that if the shoe were found in the soldier’s house it would go badly with him. Who acts: black man
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Blue Light, sentence 61

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The black manikin heard this plot, and at night when the soldier again ordered him to bring the princess, revealed it to him, and told him that he knew of no expedient to counteract this stratagem, and that if the shoe were found in the soldier’s house it would go badly with him.

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**Who acts:** black manikin, soldier, king, stratagem · **What happens:** hear, order, bring, reveal, tell, know · **To what, where:** plot, king, princess, stratagem, shoe, house · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Blue Light. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (black manikin, soldier, king, stratagem), 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:pg2591:46:61
# text = The black manikin heard this plot, and at night when the soldier again ordered him to bring the princess, revealed it to him, and told him that he knew of no expedient to counteract this stratagem, and that if the shoe were found in the soldier’s house it would go badly with him.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	manikin	manikin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
4	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	plot	plot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
11	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	15	mark	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	again	again	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
22	revealed	reveal	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
29	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	iobj	_	_
30	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	advcl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	35	det	_	_
35	expedient	expedient	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	counteract	counteract	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	advcl	_	_
38	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	39	det	_	_
39	stratagem	stratagem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
42	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	47	mark	_	_
43	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	47	mark	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	shoe	shoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nsubj:pass	_	_
46	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	aux:pass	_	_
47	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	55	advcl	_	_
48	in	in	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	’s	's	PART	POS	_	50	case	_	_
52	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	_
53	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	55	nsubj	_	_
54	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	55	aux	_	_
55	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	ccomp	_	_
56	badly	badly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	55	advmod	_	_
57	with	with	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
58	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	55	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | participle | the black manikin and night *not said here* | this plot |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer plot=Stimulus |
| 2 | **order** | past | the soldier |  | king |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **bring** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the soldier *not said here* |  | the princess |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument princess=Destination |
| 4 | **reveal** | past | the black manikin and night | plot | king |  |  |  | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to he=Recipient |
| 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | the black manikin and night *not said here* |  | king |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 6 | **know** | past | king |  |  |  |  | of no expedient | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of expedient=Stimulus |
| 7 | **counteract** | to-infinitive | king *not said here* | this stratagem |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent stratagem=Patient |
| 8 | **find** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · passive |  | the shoe |  | the soldier's house |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 9 | **go** | would | stratagem |  |  |  |  | with king; badly *property* | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with he=Beneficiary |

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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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