--- title: The king looked at him, and as the youth pleased him, he said: ‘You… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: The king looked at him, and as the youth pleased him, he said: ‘You may ask for three things to take into the castle with you, but they must be things without life.’ Who acts: king, youth, You, things. 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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 (king, youth, You, things), 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:pg2591:57:101 # text = The king looked at him, and as the youth pleased him, he said: ‘You may ask for three things to take into the castle with you, but they must be things without life.’ 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 at at ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 8 as as SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 youth youth NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 pleased pleased ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 advcl _ _ 12 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 14 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 : : PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 17 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 19 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 ccomp _ _ 21 for for ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ _ 23 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 xcomp _ _ 26 into into ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 castle castle NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 29 with with ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 32 but but CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 33 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 34 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 35 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 36 cop _ _ 36 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 37 without without ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | past | the king | | | | | at youth | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | youth | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | may | You | | | | | for three things; without life | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **take** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | You *not said here* | | | the castle | | with you | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent into castle=Destination | | 5 | **is a** | must | things *= thing* | things | | | | | tree rules | 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 100](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/57/100/) - next →: [sentence 102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/57/102/) - ↑ back to [The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/57/)