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title: The king gathered together his people, and did not know whether or n… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The king gathered together his people, and did not know whether or not he could offer any opposition to the enemy, who was superior in strength and had a mighty army. Who acts: king, enemy. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Iron Hans, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 90

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The king gathered together his people, and did not know whether or not he could offer any opposition to the enemy, who was superior in strength and had a mighty army.

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**Who acts:** king, enemy · **What happens:** gather, not know, offer, be, have · **To what, where:** people, opposition, enemy, strength, mighty army

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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, enemy), 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:pg2591:59:90
# text = The king gathered together his people, and did not know whether or not he could offer any opposition to the enemy, who was superior in strength and had a mighty army.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gathered	gather	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	together	together	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
12	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	17	mark	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	fixed	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	fixed	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	offer	offer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
18	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	det	_	_
19	opposition	opposition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	superior	superior	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	acl:relcl	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gather** | past | the king | king's people |  |  |  | together *property* | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **know** | past · do-support | the king *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **offer** | could | king | any opposition |  |  |  | to the enemy *goal* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent opposition=Theme to enemy=Goal |
| 4 | **is** | past | the enemy |  |  | strength |  | superior *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **have** | past | the king *not said here* | a mighty army |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent army=Patient |

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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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