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title: Heinel said they must first let him try these wonderful things, then… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Heinel said they must first let him try these wonderful things, then he might know how to set a value upon them. Who acts: Heinel, sword. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The King of the Golden Mountain, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The King of the Golden Mountain, sentence 70

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Heinel said they must first let him try these wonderful things, then he might know how to set a value upon them.

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**Who acts:** Heinel, sword · **What happens:** say, let, try, know, set · **To what, where:** Heinel, wonderful things, value · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Heinel, sword), 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:pg2591:51:70
# text = Heinel said they must first let him try these wonderful things, then he might know how to set a value upon them.
1	Heinel	Heinel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	advmod	_	_
6	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
10	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
17	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	ccomp	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	value	value	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Heinel |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **let** | must | sword | Heinel |  |  |  | first *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **try** | infinitive | Heinel *not said here* | this wonderful things |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality |
| 4 | **know** | might | Heinel |  |  |  | then |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **set** | to-infinitive |  | a value |  |  |  | upon sword | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent value=Theme upon they=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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