--- title: There was great astonishment over the wild man; the king, however, h… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: There was great astonishment over the wild man; the king, however, had him put in an iron cage in his courtyard, and forbade the door to be opened on pain of death, and the queen herself was to take the key into her keeping. Who acts: great astonishment, king, astonishment, queen. 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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 (great astonishment, king, astonishment, queen), 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:pg2591:59:15 # text = There was great astonishment over the wild man; the king, however, had him put in an iron cage in his courtyard, and forbade the door to be opened on pain of death, and the queen herself was to take the key into her keeping. 1 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 2 expl _ _ 2 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 astonishment astonishment NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 5 over over ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 13 however however ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 15 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 16 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 put put VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 xcomp _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 iron iron NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 cage cage NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 courtyard courtyard NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 forbade forbid VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 31 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 32 aux:pass _ _ 32 opened open VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 29 acl _ _ 33 on on ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 pain pain NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 queen queen NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nsubj _ _ 41 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 44 nsubj _ _ 42 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 44 cop _ _ 43 to to PART TO _ 44 mark _ _ 44 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 key key NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obj _ _ 47 into into SCONJ IN _ 49 mark _ _ 48 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 49 nmod:poss _ _ 49 keeping keep VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 44 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** | past | great astonishment over the wild man | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **have** | past | the king | astonishment | | | | however *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **put** | participle | astonishment *not said here* | | | a iron cage in astonishment's courtyard | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in cage=Destination | | 4 | **forbid** | past | | the door | | | | | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer door=Theme | | 5 | **open** | to-infinitive · passive | | the door *not said here* | | pain of death | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: on pain=Location | | 6 | **is** | past | the queen | | | | | take *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **keep** | gerund | the queen *not said here* | | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **pain** | | | death | | | | | nom pain «state transitive»: of=patient | 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 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/59/14/) - next →: [sentence 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/59/16/) - ↑ back to [Iron Hans](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/59/)