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title: ‘Perhaps some accident has befallen him,’ said the king, and the nex… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 3

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‘Perhaps some accident has befallen him,’ said the king, and the next day he sent out two more huntsmen who were to search for him, but they too stayed away.

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**Who acts:** king, two more huntsmen, animals · **What happens:** befall, say, send out, search, stay away · **To what, where:** accident, king, two more huntsmen · **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 (king, two more huntsmen, animals), 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:pg2591:59:3
# text = ‘Perhaps some accident has befallen him,’ said the king, and the next day he sent out two more huntsmen who were to search for him, but they too stayed away.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
3	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	det	_	_
4	accident	accident	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	befallen	befall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	ccomp	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl:unmarked	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
20	out	out	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
22	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	23	amod	_	_
23	huntsmen	huntsman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
24	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
25	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	search	search	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	acl:relcl	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
32	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	too	too	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	stayed	stay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
35	away	away	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **befall** | present · perfect · passive |  | some accident |  |  |  | perhaps *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  | the king |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **send out** | past | king | two more huntsmen |  |  | day |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent huntsman=Theme |
| 4 | **search** | past | two more huntsmen | two more huntsmen *not said here* |  |  |  | for king | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for he=Theme |
| 5 | **stay away** | past | animals *= animal* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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