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title: He next asked the old woman to show him where the king's daughter la… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He next asked the old woman to show him where the king's daughter lay; and the old woman took him upstairs, and opened a great many doors, and out of every door came a beautiful lady who had been imprisoned there by the Ettin; and one of the ladies was the king's daughter. Who acts: man, daughter, o
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# English Fairy Tales, The Red Ettin, sentence 60

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He next asked the old woman to show him where the king's daughter lay; and the old woman took him upstairs, and opened a great many doors, and out of every door came a beautiful lady who had been imprisoned there by the Ettin; and one of the ladies was the king's daughter.

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**Who acts:** man, daughter, old woman, beautiful lady, Ettin, one · **What happens:** ask, show, lie, take, open, come · **To what, where:** old woman, man, great many doors, door, beautiful lady, daughter

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Red Ettin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, daughter, old woman, beautiful lady), 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:pg7439:26:60
# text = He next asked the old woman to show him where the king's daughter lay; and the old woman took him upstairs, and opened a great many doors, and out of every door came a beautiful lady who had been imprisoned there by the Ettin; and one of the ladies was the king's daughter.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	next	next	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	iobj	_	_
10	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	15	advmod	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	upstairs	upstairs	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
28	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
29	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
33	out	out	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	36	det	_	_
36	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
37	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
41	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	44	nsubj:pass	_	_
42	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
43	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	44	aux:pass	_	_
44	imprisoned	imprison	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	40	acl:relcl	_	_
45	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	44	advmod	_	_
46	by	by	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	Ettin	Ettin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	59	punct	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	59	cc	_	_
51	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	59	nsubj	_	_
52	of	of	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	nmod	_	_
55	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	59	cop	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	's	's	PART	POS	_	57	case	_	_
59	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | man |  | the old woman |  |  | next *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent woman=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **show** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | man *not said here* |  | man |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 3 | **lie** | past | the king's daughter |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **take** | past | the old woman |  | man |  |  | upstairs *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination |
| 5 | **open** | past |  | a great many doors |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme |
| 6 | **come** | past | a beautiful lady |  |  | every door |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme out door=Initial\_Location |
| 7 | **imprison** | past · perfect · passive | the Ettin | a beautiful lady |  | there |  |  | vn confine-92 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 8 | **is a** | past | one of the ladies | the king's daughter |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:** «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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