--- title: This touched the old king’s heart, and he thought his son might stil… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: This touched the old king’s heart, and he thought his son might still be guiltless, and said to his court, ‘O that my son were still alive! how it grieves me that I had him killed!’ Who acts: This, king, son, court. 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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 (This, king, son, court), 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:pg2591:49:69 # text = This touched the old king’s heart, and he thought his son might still be guiltless, and said to his court, ‘O that my son were still alive! how it grieves me that I had him killed!’ 1 This this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 2 nsubj _ _ 2 touched touch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ’s 's PART POS _ 5 case _ _ 7 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 12 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 14 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 15 still still ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 16 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 17 cop _ _ 17 guiltless guiltless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 court court NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 25 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 O o INTJ UH _ 32 discourse _ _ 27 that that SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 28 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 30 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 31 still still ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 alive alive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 ! ! PUNCT . _ 32 punct _ _ 34 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 36 advmod _ _ 35 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 grieves grieve VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 42 advcl _ _ 37 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 36 obj _ _ 38 that that SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 39 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 40 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 42 aux _ _ 41 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 obj _ _ 42 killed kill VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 20 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 43 ! ! PUNCT . _ 42 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 42 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **touch** | past | This | the old king's heart | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme heart=Co-Theme | | 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | king | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | might | king's son | | | | still | guiltless *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | This *not said here* | | | | | to king's court | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to court=Experiencer clause=Topic | | 5 | **is** | past | my son | | | | still | alive *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **grieve** | present | court | me | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer | | 7 | **kill** | past · perfect | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | 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 68](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/49/68/) - next →: [sentence 70](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/49/70/) - ↑ back to [The Water of Life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/49/)