--- title: And the huntsmen went up to the tree, and when they came back again… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: And the huntsmen went up to the tree, and when they came back again said, ‘In the hollow tree there lies a most wonderful beast, such as we never saw before; its skin seems to be of a thousand kinds of fur, but there it lies fast asleep.’ Who acts: huntsmen, trees, we, skin. 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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 (huntsmen, trees, we, skin), 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:pg2591:59:169 # text = And the huntsmen went up to the tree, and when they came back again said, ‘In the hollow tree there lies a most wonderful beast, such as we never saw before; its skin seems to be of a thousand kinds of fur, but there it lies fast asleep.’ 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 huntsmen huntsman NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 up up ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 11 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 13 advmod _ _ 12 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 14 back back ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 15 again again ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 said say VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 18 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 In in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 hollow hollow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 23 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 24 expl _ _ 24 lies lie VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 26 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 27 advmod _ _ 27 wonderful wonderful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 beast beast NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 30 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 34 case _ _ 31 as as ADP IN _ 30 fixed _ _ 32 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 33 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 34 advmod _ _ 34 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 acl:relcl _ _ 35 before before ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 36 ; ; PUNCT : _ 39 punct _ _ 37 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 39 seems seem VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 40 to to PART TO _ 45 mark _ _ 41 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 45 cop _ _ 42 of of ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 43 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 45 nummod _ _ 45 kinds kind NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 obj _ _ 46 of of ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 47 fur fur NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 48 , , PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ _ 49 but but CCONJ CC _ 52 cc _ _ 50 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 52 expl _ _ 51 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 52 nsubj _ _ 52 lies lie VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 conj _ _ 53 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 52 advmod _ _ 54 asleep asleep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 52 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 55 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 56 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go up** | past | the huntsmen | | | | | to the tree | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 2 | **come back** | past | trees *= tree* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | participle | | | | | again | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **lie** | present | | a wonderful beast | | the hollow tree; there | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location beast=Theme | | 5 | **not** **see** | past | we | a wonderful beast *not said here* | | | | before *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer beast=Stimulus | | 6 | **seem** | present | ‘'s skin | | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **is** | to-infinitive | | | | | | of thousand kinds; of fur | tree rules | | 8 | **lie** | present | SKIN | | | there | | asleep, fast *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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 168](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/59/168/) - next →: [sentence 170](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/59/170/) - ↑ back to [Iron Hans](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/59/)