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title: Now it came to pass that once when they were out hunting, news came… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Now it came to pass that once when they were out hunting, news came that the king’s bride was approaching. Who acts: liking, huntsmen, news, bride. 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 41

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Now it came to pass that once when they were out hunting, news came that the king’s bride was approaching.

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**Who acts:** liking, huntsmen, news, bride · **What happens:** come, pass, hunt, approach

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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 (liking, huntsmen, news, bride), 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:pg2591:50:41
# text = Now it came to pass that once when they were out hunting, news came that the king’s bride was approaching.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	5	advmod	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	hunting	hunt	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	’s	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	approaching	approach	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | liking |  |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pass** | to-infinitive | liking *not said here* |  |  |  |  | once *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **hunt** | past · progressive | huntsmen *= huntsman* |  |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **come** | past | news |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **approach** | past · progressive | the king's bride |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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