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title: "I fear a unicorn less than I did two Giants! — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: "I fear a unicorn less than I did two Giants! Who acts: Tailor. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Valiant Little Tailor, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 103

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"I fear a unicorn less than I did two Giants!

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**Who acts:** Tailor · **What happens:** fear, do · **To what, where:** unicorn, two Giants

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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), 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:pg11027:13:103
# text = "I fear a unicorn less than I did two Giants!
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	fear	fear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	unicorn	unicorn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	obj	_	_
7	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
10	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	Giants	Giant	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fear** *in a quote* | present | the Tailor *= tailor* | a unicorn |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** *in a quote* | past | the Tailor *= tailor* | two Giants |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent giant=Eventuality |

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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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