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title: ‘Are you the knight who came every day to the festival, always in di… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Are you the knight who came every day to the festival, always in different colours, and who caught the three golden apples?’ asked the king. Who acts: you, knight. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Iron Hans, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 134

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‘Are you the knight who came every day to the festival, always in different colours, and who caught the three golden apples?’ asked the king.

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**Who acts:** you, knight · **What happens:** be, come, catch, ask · **To what, where:** knight, festival, three golden apples, king

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Iron Hans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, knight), 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:pg2591:59:134
# text = ‘Are you the knight who came every day to the festival, always in different colours, and who caught the three golden apples?’ asked the king.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	festival	festival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	17	advmod	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	colours	colour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
21	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
24	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	apples	apple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
28	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | you | the knight |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | past | the knight |  |  | the festival in different colours | day |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to festival=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **catch** | past |  | the three golden apples |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apple=Theme |
| 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | the knight |  | the king |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent king=Recipient |

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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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