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title: The Tailor agreed, and followed him; and when they came to the cave,… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: The Tailor agreed, and followed him; and when they came to the cave, there sat by the fire two other Giants, each with a roast sheep in his hand, of which he was eating. Who acts: Tailor, hunters, Giant. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Valiant Little Tailor, with its depend
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 54

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The Tailor agreed, and followed him; and when they came to the cave, there sat by the fire two other Giants, each with a roast sheep in his hand, of which he was eating.

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**Who acts:** Tailor, hunters, Giant · **What happens:** agree, follow, come, sit, eat · **To what, where:** Tailor, cave, two other Giants, hand

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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, hunters, Giant), 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:pg11027:13:54
# text = The Tailor agreed, and followed him; and when they came to the cave, there sat by the fire two other Giants, each with a roast sheep in his hand, of which he was eating.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Tailor	tailor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	agreed	agree	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
10	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
17	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	18	expl	_	_
18	sat	sit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
23	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	Giants	Giant	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	appos	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	roast	roast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	39	obl	_	_
37	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
38	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
39	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **agree** *speech: agree* | past | the Tailor |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **follow** | past | the Tailor *not said here* | Tailor |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | past | hunters *= hunter* |  |  | the cave |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to cave=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **sit** | participle |  | two other Giants |  | Giant's hand; there |  | by the fire | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent giant=Theme by fire=Location |
| 5 | **eat** | past · progressive | Giant |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of which=Source |

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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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