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title: At night when the young king was sleeping, his wife was to draw the… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: At night when the young king was sleeping, his wife was to draw the clothes off him and empty the bucket full of cold water with the gudgeons in it over him, so that the little fishes would sprawl about him. Who acts: young king, wife, little fishes. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grim
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 209

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At night when the young king was sleeping, his wife was to draw the clothes off him and empty the bucket full of cold water with the gudgeons in it over him, so that the little fishes would sprawl about him.

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**Who acts:** young king, wife, little fishes · **What happens:** sleep, be, empty, sprawl · **To what, where:** bucket, water

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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 (young king, wife, little fishes), 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:pg2591:57:209
# text = At night when the young king was sleeping, his wife was to draw the clothes off him and empty the bucket full of cold water with the gudgeons in it over him, so that the little fishes would sprawl about him.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
3	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	sleeping	sleep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	draw	draw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	14	obj	_	_
17	off	off	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	empty	empty	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	bucket	bucket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	gudgeons	gudgeon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	_
32	over	over	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
35	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	41	mark	_	_
36	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	35	fixed	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	fishes	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nsubj	_	_
40	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
41	sprawl	sprawl	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
42	about	about	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sleep** | past · progressive | the young king |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past | king's wife |  |  |  | night | draw *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **empty** | infinitive | king's wife *not said here* | the bucket |  | water |  | with the gudgeons; over king | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent bucket=Patient with gudgeon=Instrument |
| 4 | **sprawl** | would | the little fishes |  |  |  |  | about king | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent about he=Location |

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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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