--- title: So saying, he took him to a large oak tree, which lay upon the groun… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics description: So saying, he took him to a large oak tree, which lay upon the ground, and said, "If you are strong enough, now help me to carry this tree out of the forest." Who acts: Giant, large oak tree, you. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Valiant Little Tailor, with its dependency tr --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/13/38/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Grimm's Fairy Stories](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/) / [The Valiant Little Tailor](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/13/) / 38 # Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 38 So saying, he took him to a large oak tree, which lay upon the ground, and said, "If you are strong enough, now help me to carry this tree out of the forest." **Who acts:** Giant, large oak tree, you · **What happens:** say, take, lie, be, help, carry · **To what, where:** Tailor, large oak tree, ground, Giant, tree, forest · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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, large oak tree, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg11027:13:38 # text = So saying, he took him to a large oak tree, which lay upon the ground, and said, "If you are strong enough, now help me to carry this tree out of the forest." 1 So so ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 9 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 10 oak oak NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 14 nsubj _ _ 14 lay lie VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl:relcl _ _ 15 upon upon ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 22 " " PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 If if SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 24 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 26 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 ccomp _ _ 27 enough enough ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 30 advmod _ _ 30 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 conj _ _ 31 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 carry carry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 xcomp _ _ 34 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 35 det _ _ 35 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 36 out out ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 forest forest NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Giant *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **take** | past | Giant | Tailor | | a large oak tree | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to tree=Destination | | 3 | **lie** | past | a large oak tree | | | the ground | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon ground=Location | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Giant *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | you | | | | | enough, strong *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **help** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | Giant | | | now | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 7 | **carry** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Giant *not said here* | this tree | | the forest | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent tree=Theme out forest=Initial\_Location | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/13/37/) - next →: [sentence 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/13/39/) - ↑ back to [The Valiant Little Tailor](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/13/)