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title: My strength did not fail me," said the Tailor; "do you imagine that… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: My strength did not fail me," said the Tailor; "do you imagine that that was a hard task for one who has slain seven at one blow? Who acts: strength, Tailor, you, that. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Valiant Little Tailor, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 49

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My strength did not fail me," said the Tailor; "do you imagine that that was a hard task for one who has slain seven at one blow?

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**Who acts:** strength, Tailor, you, that · **What happens:** not fail, say, imagine, be, slay · **To what, where:** me, hard task, seven, one blow · **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 (strength, Tailor, you, that), 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:pg11027:13:49
# text = My strength did not fail me," said the Tailor; "do you imagine that that was a hard task for one who has slain seven at one blow?
1	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	fail	fail	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Tailor	tailor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	imagine	imagine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	task	task	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	ccomp	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	appos	_	_
25	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
26	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	slain	slay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	acl:relcl	_	_
28	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	obj	_	_
29	at	at	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
31	blow	blow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **fail** | past · do-support | My strength | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | the Tailor |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **imagine** | present · do-support | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 4 | **is a** | past | that | a hard task |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **slay** | present · perfect |  | seven |  | one blow |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seven=Patient |

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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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