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title: Then the shepherd patted him on the head, and said, ‘Old Sultan has… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the shepherd patted him on the head, and said, ‘Old Sultan has saved our child from the wolf, and therefore he shall live and be well taken care of, and have plenty to eat. Who acts: shepherd, Old Sultan, Sultan. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Old Sultan, with its dependenc
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Old Sultan, sentence 11

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Then the shepherd patted him on the head, and said, ‘Old Sultan has saved our child from the wolf, and therefore he shall live and be well taken care of, and have plenty to eat.

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**Who acts:** shepherd, Old Sultan, Sultan · **What happens:** pat, say, save, live, take, have · **To what, where:** Sultan, child, wolf, care, plenty · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Old Sultan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shepherd, Old Sultan, Sultan), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg2591:206`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2591:6:11
# text = Then the shepherd patted him on the head, and said, ‘Old Sultan has saved our child from the wolf, and therefore he shall live and be well taken care of, and have plenty to eat.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	patted	pat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	_
14	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	saved	save	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	ccomp	_	_
18	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	aux:pass	_	_
31	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	32	advmod	_	_
32	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	conj	_	_
33	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	obl	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	conj	_	_
38	plenty	plenty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
39	to	to	PART	TO	_	40	mark	_	_
40	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	acl	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pat** | past | the shepherd | Sultan |  |  | then | on the head | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.theme PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Experiencer on head=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the shepherd *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **save** | present · perfect | Old Sultan | our child |  | the wolf |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent child=Theme from wolf=Source |
| 4 | **live** | shall | Sultan |  |  |  |  | therefore *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **take** | infinitive · passive | Sultan *not said here* | care |  |  |  | well *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: care=Theme |
| 6 | **have** | infinitive | Sultan *not said here* | plenty |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plenty=Patient |
| 7 | **eat** | to-infinitive | Sultan *not said here* | plenty *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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