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description: This lasted for many years, when an unknown huntsman announced himself to the king as seeking a situation, and offered to go into the dangerous forest. Who acts: This, unknown huntsman. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Iron Hans, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 7

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This lasted for many years, when an unknown huntsman announced himself to the king as seeking a situation, and offered to go into the dangerous forest.

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**Who acts:** This, unknown huntsman · **What happens:** last, announce, seek, offer, go · **To what, where:** huntsman, king, situation, dangerous forest

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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 (This, unknown huntsman), 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:pg2591:59:7
# text = This lasted for many years, when an unknown huntsman announced himself to the king as seeking a situation, and offered to go into the dangerous forest.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	nsubj	_	_
2	lasted	last	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	unknown	unknown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	huntsman	huntsman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	announced	announce	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	11	obj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	seeking	seek	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	situation	situation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	offered	offer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	into	into	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **last** | past | This |  |  |  | year |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **announce** *speech: other* | past | a unknown huntsman | huntsman | the king |  |  |  | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent himself=Theme to king=Recipient |
| 3 | **seek** | gerund | a unknown huntsman *not said here* | a situation |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent situation=Theme |
| 4 | **offer** | participle | This *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **go** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | This *not said here* |  |  | the dangerous forest |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into forest=Initial\_Location |

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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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