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title: The Giant made the attempt, but could not clear the tree, and stuck… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: The Giant made the attempt, but could not clear the tree, and stuck fast in the branches; so that in this affair, too, the Tailor had the advantage. Who acts: Giant, Tailor. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Valiant Little Tailor, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 52

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The Giant made the attempt, but could not clear the tree, and stuck fast in the branches; so that in this affair, too, the Tailor had the advantage.

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**Who acts:** Giant, Tailor · **What happens:** make, not clear, stick, have · **To what, where:** attempt, tree, branches, advantage

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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 (Giant, Tailor), 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:pg11027:13:52
# text = The Giant made the attempt, but could not clear the tree, and stuck fast in the branches; so that in this affair, too, the Tailor had the advantage.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	nsubj	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	attempt	attempt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	clear	clear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	stuck	stick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
16	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
21	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	det	_	_
25	affair	affair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
27	too	too	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	Tailor	Tailor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	advantage	advantage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | the Giant | the attempt |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset attempt=Product |
| 2 | **not** **clear** | could | the Giant *not said here* | the tree |  |  |  |  | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent tree=Source |
| 3 | **stick** | participle |  |  |  | the branches |  | fast *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in branch=Destination |
| 4 | **have** | past | the Tailor | the advantage |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advantage=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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