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title: The king, however, had a lion which was a wondrous animal, for he kn… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The king, however, had a lion which was a wondrous animal, for he knew all concealed and secret things. Who acts: king, lion. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Twelve Huntsmen, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Twelve Huntsmen, sentence 18

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The king, however, had a lion which was a wondrous animal, for he knew all concealed and secret things.

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**Who acts:** king, lion · **What happens:** have, be, conceal · **To what, where:** lion, wondrous animal

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Twelve Huntsmen. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, lion), 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:pg2591:50:18
# text = The king, however, had a lion which was a wondrous animal, for he knew all concealed and secret things.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	however	however	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	wondrous	wondrous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	all	all	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	concealed	conceal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	secret	secret	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the king | a lion |  |  |  | however *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lion=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | past | a lion | a wondrous animal |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **conceal** | past | king |  |  |  |  | all *property* | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=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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