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title: Then the king’s daughter thanked him, and said to her maidens: ‘Show… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the king’s daughter thanked him, and said to her maidens: ‘Show some strength, and step firmly on the peas.’ Who acts: daughter. 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 28

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Then the king’s daughter thanked him, and said to her maidens: ‘Show some strength, and step firmly on the peas.’

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**Who acts:** daughter · **What happens:** thank, say, show, step · **To what, where:** king, strength, peas · **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 (daughter), 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:pg2591:50:28
# text = Then the king’s daughter thanked him, and said to her maidens: ‘Show some strength, and step firmly on the peas.’
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’s	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	thanked	thank	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	maidens	maiden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
15	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
17	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	det	_	_
18	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	step	step	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	parataxis	_	_
22	firmly	firmly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	peas	pea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **thank** *speech: thank* | past | the king's daughter |  | king |  | then |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the king's daughter *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to daughter's maidens | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to maiden=Experiencer clause=Topic |
| 3 | **show** | infinitive |  | some strength |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent strength=Recipient |
| 4 | **step** | infinitive |  |  |  | the peas |  | firmly *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on pea=Trajectory |

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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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