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title: Cat-skin was brought again before the king, but she still told him t… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Cat-skin was brought again before the king, but she still told him that she was only fit to have boots and shoes thrown at her head. Who acts: dance. 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 208

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Cat-skin was brought again before the king, but she still told him that she was only fit to have boots and shoes thrown at her head.

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**Who acts:** dance · **What happens:** bring, tell, be, have, throw · **To what, where:** Cat skin, king, boots, head · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (dance), 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:pg2591:59:208
# text = Cat-skin was brought again before the king, but she still told him that she was only fit to have boots and shoes thrown at her head.
1	Cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	again	again	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	before	before	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	still	still	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	iobj	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	only	only	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	fit	fit	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	ccomp	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	boots	boot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
26	thrown	throw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl	_	_
27	at	at	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | past · passive |  | Cat skin |  |  | before the king; again |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme before king=Destination |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | dance |  | king |  | still |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 3 | **is** | past | dance |  |  |  |  | fit *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | to-infinitive | dance *not said here* | boots and shoes |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boot=Patient |
| 5 | **throw** | participle |  | boots and shoes *not said here* |  | dance's head |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent at head=Destination |

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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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