--- title: "Now!" exclaimed the Tailor, "Heaven will send me a blessing on this… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics description: "Now!" exclaimed the Tailor, "Heaven will send me a blessing on this jam, and give me fresh strength and vigor;" and, taking the bread from the cupboard, he cut himself a slice the size of the whole loaf, and spread the jam upon it. " Who acts: Tailor, Heaven. 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" **Who acts:** Tailor, Heaven · **What happens:** exclaim, send, give, take, cut, spread · **To what, where:** blessing, Tailor, jam, fresh strength, bread, cupboard · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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, Heaven), 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:pg11027:13:7 # text = "Now!" exclaimed the Tailor, "Heaven will send me a blessing on this jam, and give me fresh strength and vigor;" and, taking the bread from the cupboard, he cut himself a slice the size of the whole loaf, and spread the jam upon it. " 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 5 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ! ! PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 5 exclaimed exclaim VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 Tailor tailor NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 Heaven heaven NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 11 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 send send VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 13 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 12 iobj _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 blessing blessing NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 16 on on ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 18 det _ _ 18 jam jam NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ _ 22 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 21 iobj _ _ 23 fresh fresh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 strength strength NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 vigor vigor NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ; ; PUNCT : _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 31 taking take VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 conj _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 bread bread NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 34 from from ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 cupboard cupboard NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 39 cut cut VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 40 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 39 obj _ _ 41 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 slice slice NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 size size NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 appos _ _ 45 of of ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 47 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 amod _ _ 48 loaf loaf NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 49 , , PUNCT , _ 51 punct _ _ 50 and and CCONJ CC _ 51 cc _ _ 51 spread spread VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 conj _ _ 52 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 53 det _ _ 53 jam jam NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 obj _ _ 54 upon upon ADP IN _ 55 case _ _ 55 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 51 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 56 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ 57 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | past | the Tailor | | | | now | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **send** *in a quote* | future | Heaven | a blessing | the Tailor *= tailor* | this jam | | | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination blessing=Theme | | 3 | **give** *in a quote* | infinitive | Heaven *not said here* | fresh strength and vigor | the Tailor *= tailor* | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient strength=Theme | | 4 | **take** | gerund | the Tailor *not said here* | the bread | | the cupboard | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent bread=Theme from cupboard=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **cut** | past | Heaven | Tailor | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset himself=Beneficiary slice=Product | | 6 | **spread** | past | Heaven *not said here* | the jam | | loaf | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent jam=Theme upon it=Destination | 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 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/13/6/) - next →: [sentence 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/13/8/) - ↑ back to [The Valiant Little Tailor](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/13/)