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title: The Giant read, "SEVEN AT ONE BLOW"; and supposing they were men who… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: The Giant read, "SEVEN AT ONE BLOW"; and supposing they were men whom the Tailor had killed, he felt some respect for him. Who acts: Giant, Tailor, bushes. 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 27

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The Giant read, "SEVEN AT ONE BLOW"; and supposing they were men whom the Tailor had killed, he felt some respect for him.

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**Who acts:** Giant, Tailor, bushes · **What happens:** read, suppose, be, kill, feel · **To what, where:** SEVEN, ONE BLOW, men, respect · **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 (Giant, Tailor, bushes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg11027:434`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg11027:13:27
# text = The Giant read, "SEVEN AT ONE BLOW"; and supposing they were men whom the Tailor had killed, he felt some respect for him.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	read	read	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
6	SEVEN	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	obj	_	_
7	AT	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	ONE	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	BLOW	blow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
13	supposing	suppose	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	ccomp	_	_
17	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	obj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Tailor	tailor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	acl:relcl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
25	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	26	det	_	_
26	respect	respect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **read** | past | Giant | SEVEN |  | ONE BLOW |  |  | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent seven=Theme at blow=Value |
| 2 | **suppose** | gerund | Tailor *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | past | bushes *= bush* | men |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **kill** | past · perfect | the Tailor | men |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Theme |
| 5 | **feel** | past | Tailor | some respect |  |  |  | for Giant | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent respect=Location for he=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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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