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title: ‘Strike down to earth that false judge there, and his constable, and… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Strike down to earth that false judge there, and his constable, and spare not the king who has treated me so ill.’ A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Blue Light, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Blue Light, sentence 78

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‘Strike down to earth that false judge there, and his constable, and spare not the king who has treated me so ill.’

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**What happens:** not spare, treat · **To what, where:** king

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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: 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:pg2591:46:78
# text = ‘Strike down to earth that false judge there, and his constable, and spare not the king who has treated me so ill.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Strike	strike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	down	down	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	false	false	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	judge	judge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
9	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	constable	constable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	spare	spare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	treated	treat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl:relcl	_	_
23	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **spare** | infinitive |  | the king |  |  |  |  | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent king=Asset |
| 2 | **treat** | present · perfect · passive |  | the king |  |  |  | ill *property* | tree rules |

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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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