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title: The Giant wondered what to say, and could not believe it of the litt… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: The Giant wondered what to say, and could not believe it of the little man; so, catching up another pebble, he flung it so high that it almost went out of sight, saying, "There, you pigmy, do that if you can." Who acts: Giant, Tailor, whey, you. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, 
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 32

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The Giant wondered what to say, and could not believe it of the little man; so, catching up another pebble, he flung it so high that it almost went out of sight, saying, "There, you pigmy, do that if you can."

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**Who acts:** Giant, Tailor, whey, you · **What happens:** wonder, say, not believe, catch up, fling, go out · **To what, where:** whey, pebble, sight · **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, whey, you), 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:pg11027:13:32
# text = The Giant wondered what to say, and could not believe it of the little man; so, catching up another pebble, he flung it so high that it almost went out of sight, saying, "There, you pigmy, do that if you can."
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	nsubj	_	_
3	wondered	wonder	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	believe	believe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	catching	catch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
21	up	up	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	23	det	_	_
23	pebble	pebble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	flung	fling	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	so	so	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	xcomp	_	_
30	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	advcl	_	_
34	out	out	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
38	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	38	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
43	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
44	pigmy	pigmy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
46	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	ccomp	_	_
47	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	50	mark	_	_
48	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	50	mark	_	_
49	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
50	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	46	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	46	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	46	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | past | the Giant |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **believe** | could |  | whey |  |  |  | of the little man | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 4 | **catch up** | gerund | the Giant *not said here* | another pebble |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pebble=Theme |
| 5 | **fling** | past | Tailor | whey |  |  |  | high *property* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 6 | **go out** | past | whey | sight |  |  |  | almost *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Tailor *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 8 | **pigmy** *in a quote* |  | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **do** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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