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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 3

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This cry sounded nice in the Tailor's ears, and, poking his diminutive head out of the window, he called, "Here, my good woman, just bring your jams in here!"

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**Who acts:** cry · **What happens:** sound, poke, call, bring · **To what, where:** diminutive head, window, jams · **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 (cry), 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:pg11027:13:3
# text = This cry sounded nice in the Tailor's ears, and, poking his diminutive head out of the window, he called, "Here, my good woman, just bring your jams in here!"
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	cry	cry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sounded	sound	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Tailor	Tailor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	poking	poke	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	diminutive	diminutive	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	out	out	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
29	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	just	just	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	bring	bring	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
34	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	jams	jam	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obj	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	33	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sound** | past | this cry |  |  |  |  | nice *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **poke** | gerund | cry *not said here* | Tailor's diminutive head |  | the window |  |  | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme |
| 3 | **call** | past | cry |  |  | here |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **bring** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | your jams |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent jam=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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