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title: The Giant, after he had staggered a very short distance with his hea… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: The Giant, after he had staggered a very short distance with his heavy load, could go no further, and called out, "Do you hear? Who acts: Tailor, you. 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 42

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The Giant, after he had staggered a very short distance with his heavy load, could go no further, and called out, "Do you hear?

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**Who acts:** Tailor, you · **What happens:** stagger, go, call out, hear · **To what, where:** short distance · **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 (Tailor, 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:pg11027:13:42
# text = The Giant, after he had staggered a very short distance with his heavy load, could go no further, and called out, "Do you hear?
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	staggered	stagger	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	very	very	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	load	load	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
19	no	no	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	further	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
24	out	out	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	Do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stagger** | past · perfect | Tailor | a short distance |  |  |  | with Tailor's heavy load | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus distance=Experiencer |
| 2 | **go** | could | Tailor *not said here* |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **call out** *speech: ask* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **hear** *in a quote* | present · do-support | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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