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title: Then Dummling asked once more for his bride, but the king was vexed… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Dummling asked once more for his bride, but the king was vexed that such an ugly fellow, whom everyone called Dummling, should take away his daughter, and he made a new condition; he must first find a man who could eat a whole mountain of bread. Who acts: Dummling, everyone, man. A sentence of 
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Goose, sentence 49

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Then Dummling asked once more for his bride, but the king was vexed that such an ugly fellow, whom everyone called Dummling, should take away his daughter, and he made a new condition; he must first find a man who could eat a whole mountain of bread.

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**Who acts:** Dummling, everyone, man · **What happens:** ask, vex, call, take away, make, find · **To what, where:** king, ugly fellow, new condition, man, whole mountain · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Dummling, everyone, man), 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:pg2591:48:49
# text = Then Dummling asked once more for his bride, but the king was vexed that such an ugly fellow, whom everyone called Dummling, should take away his daughter, and he made a new condition; he must first find a man who could eat a whole mountain of bread.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	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	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	5	advmod	_	_
5	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	vexed	vex	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	19	det:predet	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	ugly	ugly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	fellow	fellow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
21	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	27	obj	_	_
22	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	27	nsubj	_	_
23	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl	_	_
24	Dummling	Dummling	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
26	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	parataxis	_	_
28	away	away	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	condition	condition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
39	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
40	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
41	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	42	advmod	_	_
42	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
43	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	_
45	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	47	nsubj	_	_
46	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	47	aux	_	_
47	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	44	acl:relcl	_	_
48	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
49	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obj	_	_
51	of	of	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Dummling |  |  |  | then |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **vex** | past · passive |  | the king |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 3 | **call** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **take away** | should | everyone | such ugly fellow |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **make** | past | Dummling | a new condition |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent condition=Product |
| 6 | **find** | must | Dummling | a man |  |  |  | first *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Topic |
| 7 | **eat** | could | a man | a whole mountain of bread |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mountain=Patient |

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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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