--- title: He did all he could to soothe her, and she at last seemed to be appe… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: He did all he could to soothe her, and she at last seemed to be appeased; but she was not so in truth, and was only thinking how she should punish him. Who acts: luck, queen. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The King of the Golden Mountain, with its dependency tree and the pragmat --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/51/62/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Grimms' Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/) / [The King of the Golden Mountain](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/51/) / 62 # Grimms' Fairy Tales, The King of the Golden Mountain, sentence 62 He did all he could to soothe her, and she at last seemed to be appeased; but she was not so in truth, and was only thinking how she should punish him. **Who acts:** luck, queen · **What happens:** do, soothe, seem, appease, not be, think · **To what, where:** all, queen, truth, luck This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The King of the Golden Mountain. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (luck, queen), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2591:51:62 # text = He did all he could to soothe her, and she at last seemed to be appeased; but she was not so in truth, and was only thinking how she should punish him. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 2 obj _ _ 4 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 5 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 soothe soothe VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 acl:relcl _ _ 8 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 11 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 12 at at ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 nmod _ _ 14 seemed seem VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 16 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 17 aux:pass _ _ 17 appeased appease VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 19 but but CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 20 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 21 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 22 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 23 so so ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 truth truth NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 28 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 29 only only ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 thinking think VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ _ 31 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 34 advmod _ _ 32 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 33 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 34 punish punish VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 advcl _ _ 35 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | luck | all | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Eventuality | | 2 | **soothe** | could | luck | queen | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer | | 3 | **seem** | past | queen | | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | | 4 | **appease** | to-infinitive · passive | queen *not said here* | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | | 5 | **not** **is** | past | queen | | | truth | | | tree rules | | 6 | **think** *speech: other* | past · progressive | luck *not said here* | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **punish** | should | queen | luck | | | | | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 61](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/51/61/) - next →: [sentence 63](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/51/63/) - ↑ back to [The King of the Golden Mountain](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/51/)