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title: Then the gold was brought up and the wedding celebrated; but howsoev… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the gold was brought up and the wedding celebrated; but howsoever much the young king loved his wife, and however happy he was, he still said always: ‘If I could but shudder--if I could but shudder.’ Who acts: wedding, young king, king. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The St
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 205

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Then the gold was brought up and the wedding celebrated; but howsoever much the young king loved his wife, and however happy he was, he still said always: ‘If I could but shudder--if I could but shudder.’

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**Who acts:** wedding, young king, king · **What happens:** bring up, celebrate, love, be, say · **To what, where:** gold, wife · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wedding, young king, king), 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:pg2591:57:205
# text = Then the gold was brought up and the wedding celebrated; but howsoever much the young king loved his wife, and however happy he was, he still said always: ‘If I could but shudder--if I could but shudder.’
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	celebrated	celebrate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
13	howsoever	howsoever	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	much	much	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	however	however	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	parataxis	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	still	still	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	parataxis	_	_
31	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	36	punct	_	_
33	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
35	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	ccomp	_	_
37	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	shudder	shudder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
41	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
42	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	ccomp	_	_
43	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	shudder	shudder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring up** | past · passive |  | the gold |  |  | then |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **celebrate** | participle | the wedding |  |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **love** | past | the young king | king's wife |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wife=Stimulus |
| 4 | **be** | past | king |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | king |  |  |  | still | always *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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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