--- title: But he begged so hard that the king let him go; and the prince thoug… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: But he begged so hard that the king let him go; and the prince thought to himself, ‘If I bring my father this water, he will make me sole heir to his kingdom.’ Who acts: king, man, prince, I. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, man, prince, I), 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:pg2591:49:10 # text = But he begged so hard that the king let him go; and the prince thought to himself, ‘If I bring my father this water, he will make me sole heir to his kingdom.’ 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 begged beg VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 so so ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 hard hard ADV RB Degree=Pos 3 advmod _ _ 6 that that SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 ccomp _ _ 10 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 17 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 20 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 If if SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 22 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 bring bring VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 advcl _ _ 24 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 27 det _ _ 27 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 29 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 30 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 ccomp _ _ 32 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ _ 33 sole sole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 heir heir NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 xcomp _ _ 35 to to ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 kingdom kingdom NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **beg** *speech: request* | past | king | | | | | hard *property* | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **let** | infinitive | the king | man | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **go** | infinitive | man *not said here* | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **think** *speech: other* | past | the prince | | king | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 5 | **bring** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | I | this water | my father | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent father=Destination water=Theme | | 6 | **make** | future | king | me | | | | to king's kingdom | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Product | 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 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/49/9/) - next →: [sentence 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/49/11/) - ↑ back to [The Water of Life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/49/)