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title: The little Tailor bound the belt around his body, and made ready to… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: The little Tailor bound the belt around his body, and made ready to travel forth into the wide world, feeling the workshop too small for his great deeds. Who acts: little Tailor. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Valiant Little Tailor, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 18

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The little Tailor bound the belt around his body, and made ready to travel forth into the wide world, feeling the workshop too small for his great deeds.

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**Who acts:** little Tailor · **What happens:** bind, make, travel, feel · **To what, where:** belt, body, wide world, workshop

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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 (little 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:pg11027:13:18
# text = The little Tailor bound the belt around his body, and made ready to travel forth into the wide world, feeling the workshop too small for his great deeds.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Tailor	Tailor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	bound	bind	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	belt	belt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	around	around	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
13	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	travel	travel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	into	into	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	feeling	feel	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	workshop	workshop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	too	too	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	xcomp	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
29	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	deeds	deed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bind** | past | the little Tailor | the belt |  | Tailor's body |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent belt=Patient |
| 2 | **make** | past |  |  |  |  |  | ready *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 3 | **travel** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | the wide world |  | forth *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into world=Destination |
| 4 | **feel** | gerund |  | the workshop |  |  |  | small *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent workshop=Theme |

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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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