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title: So he had put forth a decree that whosoever should be able to make h… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So he had put forth a decree that whosoever should be able to make her laugh should marry her. Who acts: king, decree. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Goose, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Goose, sentence 42

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So he had put forth a decree that whosoever should be able to make her laugh should marry her.

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**Who acts:** king, decree · **What happens:** put, be, make, marry, laugh · **To what, where:** laugh, goose

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Goose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, decree), 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:pg2591:48:42
# text = So he had put forth a decree that whosoever should be able to make her laugh should marry her.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	decree	decree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
9	whosoever	whosoever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
10	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	_
12	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	acl:relcl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	laugh	laugh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
19	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | past · perfect | king |  |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | should | a decree |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | to-infinitive | a decree *not said here* | decree's laugh |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset laugh=Product |
| 4 | **marry** | should | a decree | goose |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |
| 5 | **laugh** |  | decree |  |  |  |  |  | nom laugh «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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