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title: Then the Giant said, "Since you are such a brave fellow, come with m… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the Giant said, "Since you are such a brave fellow, come with me to my house, and stop a night with me." Who acts: Giant, 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 53

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Then the Giant said, "Since you are such a brave fellow, come with me to my house, and stop a night with me."

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**Who acts:** Giant, you · **What happens:** say, be, come, stop · **To what, where:** brave fellow, house · **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 (Giant, 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:pg11027:13:53
# text = Then the Giant said, "Since you are such a brave fellow, come with me to my house, and stop a night with me."
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	nsubj	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
9	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
10	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	13	det:predet	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	fellow	fellow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
15	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	parataxis	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl:unmarked	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Giant |  |  |  | then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | you | such brave fellow |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **come** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  | my house |  | with the Giant *= giant* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **stop** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  | night | with the Giant *= giant* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with i=Location |

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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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