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title: The huntsman replied: ‘Lord, I will venture it at my own risk, of fe… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The huntsman replied: ‘Lord, I will venture it at my own risk, of fear I know nothing.’ Who acts: huntsman, I, my. 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 9

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The huntsman replied: ‘Lord, I will venture it at my own risk, of fear I know nothing.’

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**Who acts:** huntsman, I, my · **What happens:** reply, venture, know, risk · **To what, where:** consent, own risk, nothing · **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 (huntsman, I, my), 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:pg2591:59:9
# text = The huntsman replied: ‘Lord, I will venture it at my own risk, of fear I know nothing.’
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	huntsman	huntsman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
5	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	venture	venture	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	risk	risk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
21	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | the huntsman |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **venture** | future | I | consent |  | my own risk |  | Lord *vocative* | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
| 3 | **know** | present | I | nothing |  |  |  | of fear | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus |
| 4 | **risk** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom risk «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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