--- title: Thereupon Dummling asked to have her for his wife; but the king did… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Thereupon Dummling asked to have her for his wife; but the king did not like the son-in-law, and made all manner of excuses and said he must first produce a man who could drink a cellarful of wine. Who acts: Dummling, king, man. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Goose, w --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/48/44/) [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 Golden Goose](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/48/) / 44 # Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Goose, sentence 44 Thereupon Dummling asked to have her for his wife; but the king did not like the son-in-law, and made all manner of excuses and said he must first produce a man who could drink a cellarful of wine. **Who acts:** Dummling, king, man · **What happens:** ask, have, not like, make, say, produce · **To what, where:** goose, son, law, manner, man, cellarful · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Dummling, king, man), 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:pg2591:48:44 # text = Thereupon Dummling asked to have her for his wife; but the king did not like the son-in-law, and made all manner of excuses and said he must first produce a man who could drink a cellarful of wine. 1 Thereupon thereupon ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 Dummling Dummling PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ 7 for for ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ; ; PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 11 but but CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 14 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 15 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 16 like like VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ SpaceAfter=No 21 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 law law NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 26 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 27 det _ _ 27 manner manner NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 excuses excuse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nmod _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 32 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 33 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 34 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 35 advmod _ _ 35 produce produce VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 ccomp _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 38 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 40 nsubj _ _ 39 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 40 drink drink VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 acl:relcl _ _ 41 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 cellarful cellarful NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ _ 43 of of ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 wine wine NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Dummling | | | | | thereupon *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **have** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Dummling *not said here* | goose | | | | for Dummling's wife | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | | 3 | **not** **like** | past · do-support | the king | the son | | law | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot son=Theme | | 4 | **make** | past | | all manner of excuses | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset manner=Product | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **produce** | must | king | a man | | | | first *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Result | | 7 | **drink** | could | a man | a cellarful of wine | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cellarful=Patient | 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 43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/48/43/) - next →: [sentence 45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/48/45/) - ↑ back to [The Golden Goose](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/48/)