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title: "You can throw well," replied the giant; "now truly we will see if y… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: "You can throw well," replied the giant; "now truly we will see if you are able to carry something uncommon." Who acts: You, we. 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 37

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"You can throw well," replied the giant; "now truly we will see if you are able to carry something uncommon."

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**Who acts:** You, we · **What happens:** throw, reply, see, be, carry · **To what, where:** giant, something · **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 (You, we), 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:pg11027:13:37
# text = "You can throw well," replied the giant; "now truly we will see if you are able to carry something uncommon."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	throw	throw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
8	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
14	truly	truly	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
15	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
18	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	23	obj	_	_
25	uncommon	uncommon	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **throw** *in a quote* | can | You |  |  |  |  | well *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past |  | the giant |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent giant=Topic |
| 3 | **see** *in a quote* | future | we |  |  |  | now | truly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **carry** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | something |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=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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