--- title: Now this king and queen had plenty of money, and plenty of fine clot… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Now this king and queen had plenty of money, and plenty of fine clothes to wear, and plenty of good things to eat and drink, and a coach to ride out in every day: but though they had been married many years they had no children, and this grieved them very much indeed. Who acts: king, this. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, this), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2591:8:2 # text = Now this king and queen had plenty of money, and plenty of fine clothes to wear, and plenty of good things to eat and drink, and a coach to ride out in every day: but though they had been married many years they had no children, and this grieved them very much indeed. 1 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 6 advmod _ _ 2 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 3 det _ _ 3 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 queen queen NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 6 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 plenty plenty NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 plenty plenty NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 clothes clothes NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 12 nmod _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 wear wear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 plenty plenty NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nmod _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 acl _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 drink drink VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 coach coach NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 ride ride VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 acl _ _ 34 out out ADP RP _ 33 compound:prt _ _ 35 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 37 det _ _ 37 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 : : PUNCT : _ 48 punct _ _ 39 but but CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 40 though though SCONJ IN _ 44 mark _ _ 41 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj:pass _ _ 42 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 44 aux _ _ 43 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 44 aux:pass _ _ 44 married marry VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 48 advcl _ _ 45 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 46 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 obl:unmarked _ _ 47 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 48 nsubj _ _ 48 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 parataxis _ _ 49 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 50 det _ _ 50 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 48 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 51 , , PUNCT , _ 54 punct _ _ 52 and and CCONJ CC _ 54 cc _ _ 53 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 54 nsubj _ _ 54 grieved grieve VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 48 conj _ _ 55 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 54 obj _ _ 56 very very ADV RB _ 57 advmod _ _ 57 much much ADV RB _ 58 advmod _ _ 58 indeed indeed ADV RB _ 54 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 59 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | this king and queen | plenty of money | | | now | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plenty=Patient | | 2 | **wear** | to-infinitive | this king and queen *not said here* | plenty of fine clothes *not said here* | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **eat** | to-infinitive | this king and queen *not said here* | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **drink** | infinitive | this king and queen *not said here* | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **ride out** | to-infinitive | this king and queen *not said here* | | | | day | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **marry** | past · perfect · passive | | king | | | year | | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 7 | **have** | past | king | no children | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient | | 8 | **grieve** | past | this | king | | | | indeed *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/8/1/) - next →: [sentence 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/8/3/) - ↑ back to [Briar Rose](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/8/)