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title: As Heinel came near his castle he heard the sound of merry music; an… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: As Heinel came near his castle he heard the sound of merry music; and the people around told him that his queen was about to marry another husband. Who acts: Heinel, people, queen. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The King of the Golden Mountain, with its dependency tree and the p
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The King of the Golden Mountain, sentence 77

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As Heinel came near his castle he heard the sound of merry music; and the people around told him that his queen was about to marry another husband.

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**Who acts:** Heinel, people, queen · **What happens:** come, hear, tell, be, marry · **To what, where:** castle, sound, Heinel, husband · **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, people, queen), 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:pg2591:51:77
# text = As Heinel came near his castle he heard the sound of merry music; and the people around told him that his queen was about to marry another husband.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Heinel	Heinel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	near	near	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	merry	merry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
18	around	around	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	iobj	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	about	about	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	advcl	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
28	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	29	det	_	_
29	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	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 |  |  |  | Heinel's castle |  | as Heinel | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near castle=Location |
| 2 | **hear** | past | Heinel | the sound of merry music |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | the people |  | Heinel |  |  | around *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 4 | **is** | past | Heinel's queen |  |  |  |  | about *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **marry** | to-infinitive | Heinel's queen *not said here* | another husband |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Patient |

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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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