--- title: Then the huntsman said, ‘Give the old one stripes three times a day… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Then the huntsman said, ‘Give the old one stripes three times a day and hay once; give the next (who was the servant-maid) stripes once a day and hay three times; and give the youngest (who was the beautiful lady) hay three times a day and no stripes’: for he could not find it in his heart to have h --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/56/63/) [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 Salad](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/56/) / 63 # Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Salad, sentence 63 Then the huntsman said, ‘Give the old one stripes three times a day and hay once; give the next (who was the servant-maid) stripes once a day and hay three times; and give the youngest (who was the beautiful lady) hay three times a day and no stripes’: for he could not find it in his heart to have her beaten. **Who acts:** huntsman, heart · **What happens:** say, give, be, not find, have, beat · **To what, where:** old one stripes, next, servant maid, youngest, beautiful lady, miller · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Salad. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (huntsman, heart), 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:pg2591:56:63 # text = Then the huntsman said, ‘Give the old one stripes three times a day and hay once; give the next (who was the servant-maid) stripes once a day and hay three times; and give the youngest (who was the beautiful lady) hay three times a day and no stripes’: for he could not find it in his heart to have her beaten. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 huntsman huntsman NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 Give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 ccomp _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 9 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 10 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 stripes stripe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 12 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 13 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl:unmarked _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod:unmarked _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 hay hay NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 18 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 17 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 20 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 obj _ _ 23 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 29 nsubj _ _ 25 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 27 servant servant NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 28 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 maid maid NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 29 punct _ _ 31 stripes stripe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 conj _ _ 32 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 34 advmod _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 hay hay NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 conj _ _ 37 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 38 nummod _ _ 38 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 39 ; ; PUNCT : _ 41 punct _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 41 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 ccomp _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 youngest young ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 41 obj _ _ 44 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 49 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 45 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 49 nsubj _ _ 46 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 49 cop _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 48 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 49 amod _ _ 49 lady lady NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 50 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 49 punct _ _ 51 hay hay NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 conj _ _ 52 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 53 nummod _ _ 53 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 obl:unmarked _ _ 54 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 55 det _ _ 55 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 nmod:unmarked _ _ 56 and and CCONJ CC _ 58 cc _ _ 57 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 58 det _ _ 58 stripes stripe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 53 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 59 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 41 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 60 : : PUNCT : _ 65 punct _ _ 61 for for SCONJ IN _ 65 mark _ _ 62 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 65 nsubj _ _ 63 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 65 aux _ _ 64 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 65 advmod _ _ 65 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 66 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 65 obj _ _ 67 in in ADP IN _ 69 case _ _ 68 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 69 nmod:poss _ _ 69 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 65 obl _ _ 70 to to PART TO _ 71 mark _ _ 71 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 65 advcl _ _ 72 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 71 obj _ _ 73 beaten beat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 71 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 74 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the huntsman | | | | then | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **give** | infinitive | | the old one stripes | | | time | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stripe=Theme | | 3 | **give** | infinitive | the huntsman *not said here* | the next | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent next=Theme | | 4 | **is a** | past | | the servant maid and stripes a day three times and hay | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **give** | infinitive | | the youngest | | | time | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent young=Theme | | 6 | **is a** | past | | the beautiful lady and hay | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **not** **find** | could | huntsman | miller | | huntsman's heart | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | | 8 | **have** | to-infinitive | huntsman *not said here* | heart | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **beat** | participle | heart *not said here* | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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 62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/56/62/) - next →: [sentence 64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/56/64/) - ↑ back to [The Salad](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/56/)