--- title: As a merry young huntsman was once going briskly along through a woo… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: As a merry young huntsman was once going briskly along through a wood, there came up a little old woman, and said to him, ‘Good day, good day; you seem merry enough, but I am hungry and thirsty; do pray give me something to eat.’ Who acts: merry young huntsman, little old woman, you, I. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (merry young huntsman, little old woman, you, I), 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:pg2591:56:1 # text = As a merry young huntsman was once going briskly along through a wood, there came up a little old woman, and said to him, ‘Good day, good day; you seem merry enough, but I am hungry and thirsty; do pray give me something to eat.’ 1 As as SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 3 merry merry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 4 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 huntsman huntsman NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 6 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 7 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 8 advmod _ _ 8 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 advcl _ _ 9 briskly briskly ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 10 along along ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 11 through through ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 15 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 16 expl _ _ 16 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 17 up up ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 19 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 20 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 25 to to ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 Good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 34 ; ; PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 seem seem VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 37 merry merry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 xcomp _ _ 38 enough enough ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 40 but but CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 41 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 42 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 43 cop _ _ 43 hungry hungry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 parataxis _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 45 thirsty thirsty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 ; ; PUNCT : _ 48 punct _ _ 47 do do AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 48 aux _ _ 48 pray pray VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 conj _ _ 49 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 48 xcomp _ _ 50 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 49 iobj _ _ 51 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 49 obj _ _ 52 to to PART TO _ 53 mark _ _ 53 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 51 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 54 . . PUNCT . _ 48 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 55 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 48 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past · progressive | a merry young huntsman | | | a wood | | along, briskly, once *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme through wood=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **come up** | past | a little old woman | | | there | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | a little old woman *not said here* | | huntsman | | day | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | | 4 | **seem** | present | you | | | | | merry *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **is** | present | I | | | | | hungry *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **be** | | I *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **pray** | infinitive · do-support | a little old woman *not said here* | | | | | | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 8 | **give** | infinitive | a little old woman *not said here* | something | me | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient something=Theme | | 9 | **eat** | to-infinitive | a little old woman *not said here* | something *not said here* | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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: [Second Story, 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/55/27/) - next →: [sentence 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/56/2/) - ↑ back to [The Salad](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/56/)