--- title: When midnight came, and the Giant fancied the Tailor would be in a s… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics description: When midnight came, and the Giant fancied the Tailor would be in a sound sleep, he got up, and taking a heavy iron bar, beat the bed right through at one stroke, and believed he had thereby given the Tailor his death-blow. Who acts: midnight, Giant, Tailor. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (midnight, Giant, Tailor), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg11027:13:59 # text = When midnight came, and the Giant fancied the Tailor would be in a sound sleep, he got up, and taking a heavy iron bar, beat the bed right through at one stroke, and believed he had thereby given the Tailor his death-blow. 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 advmod _ _ 2 midnight midnight NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 Giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 nsubj _ _ 8 fancied fancy VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 Tailor tailor NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 11 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 12 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 16 cop _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 sleep sleep NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 18 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 20 up up ADP RP _ 19 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 taking take VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 advcl _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 25 heavy heavy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 26 iron iron NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 bar bar NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 beat beat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 bed bed NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 32 right right ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 33 through through ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 34 at at ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 36 nummod _ _ 36 stroke stroke NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 believed believe VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 40 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj:pass _ _ 41 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ _ 42 thereby thereby ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 43 given give VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 39 ccomp _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 Tailor Tailor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 43 iobj _ _ 46 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 49 nmod:poss _ _ 47 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 48 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 47 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 49 blow blow NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 19 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | midnight | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **fancy** | past | the Giant | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **is** | would | the Tailor | | | a sound sleep | | | tree rules | | 4 | **get up** | past | Tailor | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **take** | gerund | Tailor *not said here* | a heavy iron bar | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bar=Theme | | 6 | **beat** | past | Tailor *not said here* | the bed | | one stroke | | right *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bed=Theme | | 7 | **believe** | past | Tailor *not said here* | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 8 | **give** | past · perfect · passive | | Tailor | the Tailor | | | thereby *property* | tree rules | | 9 | **blow** | | Tailor | | | | | | nom blow «act intransitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/13/58/) - next →: [sentence 60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/13/60/) - ↑ back to [The Valiant Little Tailor](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/13/)