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title: The king liked the advice, and had the spinning-wheels placed in the… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The king liked the advice, and had the spinning-wheels placed in the ante-chamber. Who acts: king. 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 33

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The king liked the advice, and had the spinning-wheels placed in the ante-chamber.

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**Who acts:** king · **What happens:** like, have, place · **To what, where:** advice, spinning wheels, ante chamber

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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), 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:pg2591:50:33
# text = The king liked the advice, and had the spinning-wheels placed in the ante-chamber.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	liked	like	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	advice	advice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	spinning	spinning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	wheels	wheel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
13	placed	place	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	ante	ante	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	chamber	chamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **like** | past | the king | the advice |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot advice=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | past | the king *not said here* | the spinning wheels |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wheel=Patient |
| 3 | **place** | participle |  | the spinning wheels *not said here* |  | the ante chamber |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in chamber=Destination |

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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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