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title: So the next morning the wolf sent the boar to challenge Sultan to co… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So the next morning the wolf sent the boar to challenge Sultan to come into the wood to fight the matter. Who acts: wolf. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Old Sultan, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Old Sultan, sentence 19

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So the next morning the wolf sent the boar to challenge Sultan to come into the wood to fight the matter.

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**Who acts:** wolf · **What happens:** send, challenge, come, fight · **To what, where:** boar, Sultan, wood, matter

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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 (wolf), 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:pg2591:6:19
# text = So the next morning the wolf sent the boar to challenge Sultan to come into the wood to fight the matter.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	boar	boar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	challenge	challenge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
12	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	fight	fight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past | the wolf | the boar |  |  | morning |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boar=Theme |
| 2 | **challenge** | to-infinitive | the wolf *not said here* | Sultan |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **come** | to-infinitive | the wolf *not said here* |  |  | the wood |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into wood=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **fight** | to-infinitive | the wolf *not said here* | the matter |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent matter=Co-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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