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title: "Now I have got him," said the Tailor; and coming from behind the tr… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: "Now I have got him," said the Tailor; and coming from behind the tree, he first bound the rope around its neck, and then cutting the horn out of the tree with his axe, he arranged everything, and, leading the unicorn, brought it before the King. Who acts: Tailor, unicorn. A sentence of «Grimm's Fai
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 109

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"Now I have got him," said the Tailor; and coming from behind the tree, he first bound the rope around its neck, and then cutting the horn out of the tree with his axe, he arranged everything, and, leading the unicorn, brought it before the King.

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**Who acts:** Tailor, unicorn · **What happens:** get, say, come, bind, cut, arrange · **To what, where:** unicorn, tree, rope, neck, horn, everything · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, unicorn), 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:pg11027:13:109
# text = "Now I have got him," said the Tailor; and coming from behind the tree, he first bound the rope around its neck, and then cutting the horn out of the tree with his axe, he arranged everything, and, leading the unicorn, brought it before the King.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	ccomp	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Tailor	tailor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	22	advmod	_	_
22	bound	bind	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	rope	rope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	around	around	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	31	advmod	_	_
31	cutting	cut	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	horn	horn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	out	out	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
38	with	with	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	axe	axe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
42	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
43	arranged	arrange	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
44	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	43	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
48	leading	lead	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	52	advcl	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	unicorn	unicorn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
52	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	conj	_	_
53	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	obj	_	_
54	before	before	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** *in a quote* | present · perfect | the Tailor *= tailor* | unicorn |  |  | now |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Tailor |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **come** | gerund | the Tailor *not said here* |  |  | the tree |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from tree=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **bind** | past | unicorn | the rope |  | tree's neck |  | first *property* | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rope=Patient |
| 5 | **cut** | gerund | unicorn *not said here* | the horn |  | the tree | then | with unicorn's axe | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horn=Patient with axe=Instrument |
| 6 | **arrange** | past | unicorn | everything |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Product |
| 7 | **lead** | gerund |  | the unicorn |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent unicorn=Theme |
| 8 | **bring** | past | unicorn *not said here* | horn |  |  | before the King |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme before king=Destination |

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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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