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title: One fine day a Tailor was sitting on his bench by the window in very… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: One fine day a Tailor was sitting on his bench by the window in very high spirits, sewing away most diligently, and presently up the street came a country woman, crying, "Good jams for sale! Who acts: Tailor, country woman. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Valiant Little Tai
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 1

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One fine day a Tailor was sitting on his bench by the window in very high spirits, sewing away most diligently, and presently up the street came a country woman, crying, "Good jams for sale!

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**Who acts:** Tailor, country woman · **What happens:** sit, sew away, come, cry · **To what, where:** Good jams, bench, street

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This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Valiant Little Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tailor, country woman), 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:pg11027:13:1
# text = One fine day a Tailor was sitting on his bench by the window in very high spirits, sewing away most diligently, and presently up the street came a country woman, crying, "Good jams for sale!
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Tailor	Tailor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	bench	bench	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	very	very	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	spirits	spirit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	sewing	sew	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
20	away	away	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	22	nsubj	_	_
22	diligently	diligently	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
25	presently	presently	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
26	up	up	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
29	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	Good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	jams	jam	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
39	for	for	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	sale	sale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past · progressive | a Tailor | Good jams for sale |  | Tailor's bench | day | by the window in high spirits | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bench=Location |
| 2 | **sew away** | gerund | a Tailor *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away, diligently *property* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **come** | past | a country woman |  |  | the street |  | presently *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme up street=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund | a Tailor *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «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:** «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (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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