--- title: The Tailor, jumping down, quickly embraced the tree with both arms,… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics description: The Tailor, jumping down, quickly embraced the tree with both arms, as if he had been carrying it, and said to the Giant, "Are you such a big fellow, and yet cannot you carry a tree by yourself?" Who acts: Tailor, you. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Valiant Little Tailor, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/13/44/) [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/) / 44 # Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 44 The Tailor, jumping down, quickly embraced the tree with both arms, as if he had been carrying it, and said to the Giant, "Are you such a big fellow, and yet cannot you carry a tree by yourself?" **Who acts:** Tailor, you · **What happens:** jump down, embrace, carry, say, be, not carry · **To what, where:** tree, big fellow · **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 (Tailor, 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:pg11027:13:44 # text = The Tailor, jumping down, quickly embraced the tree with both arms, as if he had been carrying it, and said to the Giant, "Are you such a big fellow, and yet cannot you carry a tree by yourself?" 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Tailor tailor NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 jumping jump VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 acl _ _ 5 down down ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 7 quickly quickly ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 embraced embrace VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 13 det _ _ 13 arms arm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 15 as as SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 16 if if SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 18 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 19 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 20 aux _ _ 20 carrying carry VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 advcl _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 25 to to ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 Giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 29 " " PUNCT `` _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 Are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 31 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 32 such such DET PDT PronType=Ind 35 det:predet _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 fellow fellow NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 38 yet yet ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ _ 39 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 42 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 40 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 42 advmod _ _ 41 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 42 carry carry VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 conj _ _ 43 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obj _ _ 45 by by ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 46 yourself yourself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 42 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 47 ? ? PUNCT . _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 48 " " PUNCT '' _ 35 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **jump down** | gerund | the Tailor *not said here* | | | | | down *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **embrace** | past | the Tailor | the tree | | | | with both arms; quickly *property* | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Co-Agent | | 3 | **carry** | past · perfect · progressive | Tailor | tree | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 4 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | the Tailor *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | you | such big fellow | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **not** **carry** *in a quote* | can | you | a tree | | | yet | by yourself | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Theme | 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 43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/13/43/) - next →: [sentence 45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/13/45/) - ↑ back to [The Valiant Little Tailor](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/13/)