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title: Then the king said, ‘You have sung so well, that I will give you my… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the king said, ‘You have sung so well, that I will give you my daughter for your wife.’ Who acts: king, You, I. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, King Grisly-beard, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, King Grisly-beard, sentence 16

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Then the king said, ‘You have sung so well, that I will give you my daughter for your wife.’

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**Who acts:** king, You, I · **What happens:** say, sing, give · **To what, where:** daughter · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, King Grisly-beard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, You, I), 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:pg2591:58:16
# text = Then the king said, ‘You have sung so well, that I will give you my daughter for your wife.’
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	king	king	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	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	sung	sing	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	ccomp	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	iobj	_	_
18	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	iobj	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the king |  |  |  | then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | present · perfect | You |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
| 3 | **give** | future | I |  | my daughter |  |  | for your wife | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent you=Recipient daughter=Theme for wife=Asset |

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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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