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title: There was, however, a servant of the king’s who favoured the huntsme… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: There was, however, a servant of the king’s who favoured the huntsmen, and when he heard that they were going to be put to this test he went to them and repeated everything, and said: ‘The lion wants to make the king believe that you are girls.’ Who acts: servant, king, huntsmen, lion. A sentence of
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Twelve Huntsmen, sentence 27

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There was, however, a servant of the king’s who favoured the huntsmen, and when he heard that they were going to be put to this test he went to them and repeated everything, and said: ‘The lion wants to make the king believe that you are girls.’

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**Who acts:** servant, king, huntsmen, lion, you · **What happens:** be, favour, hear, go, put, repeat · **To what, where:** huntsmen, everything, king, girls · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (servant, king, huntsmen, 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:pg2591:50:27
# text = There was, however, a servant of the king’s who favoured the huntsmen, and when he heard that they were going to be put to this test he went to them and repeated everything, and said: ‘The lion wants to make the king believe that you are girls.’
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	however	however	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	’s	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	favoured	favour	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	huntsmen	huntsman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	20	advmod	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	xcomp	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	30	det	_	_
30	test	test	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	parataxis	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obl	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	repeated	repeat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	conj	_	_
37	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	45	punct	_	_
42	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	45	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nsubj	_	_
45	wants	want	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	50	parataxis	_	_
46	to	to	PART	TO	_	47	mark	_	_
47	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	45	xcomp	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obj	_	_
50	believe	believe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	40	ccomp	_	_
51	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	54	mark	_	_
52	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	54	nsubj	_	_
53	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	54	cop	_	_
54	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	40	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	40	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | a servant of the king |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **favour** | past | the king | the huntsmen |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **hear** | past | servant |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **go** | past · progressive | huntsmen *= huntsman* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **put** | to-infinitive · passive | huntsmen *= huntsman* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to this test | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP» |
| 6 | **go** | past | servant |  | huntsmen *= huntsman* |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to they=Initial\_Location |
| 7 | **repeat** | past | servant *not said here* | everything |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Eventuality |
| 8 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 9 | **want** | present | the lion |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 10 | **make** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the lion *not said here* | the king |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset king=Product |
| 11 | **believe** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 12 | **is a** | present | you | girls |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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