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title: And soon the Giant pointed out a bed where he could lie down and go… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: And soon the Giant pointed out a bed where he could lie down and go to sleep. Who acts: Tailor. 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 57

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And soon the Giant pointed out a bed where he could lie down and go to sleep.

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**Who acts:** Tailor · **What happens:** point out, lie down, go · **To what, where:** Giant pointed bed, sleep

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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), 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:pg11027:13:57
# text = And soon the Giant pointed out a bed where he could lie down and go to sleep.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
4	Giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
5	pointed	point	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
9	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	12	advmod	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	lie	lie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
13	down	down	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **point out** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **lie down** | could | Tailor | the Giant pointed bed |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **go** | infinitive | Tailor *not said here* |  |  | sleep |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to sleep=Initial\_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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