--- title: For a long time he deliberated, till finally he came to a decision;… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics description: For a long time he deliberated, till finally he came to a decision; and, sending for the Tailor, he told him that, seeing he was so great a hero, he wished to beg a favor of him. " Who acts: Tailor. 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" **Who acts:** Tailor · **What happens:** deliberate, come, send, tell, see, be · **To what, where:** decision, that, King, favor, Tailor · **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), 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:pg11027:13:77 # text = For a long time he deliberated, till finally he came to a decision; and, sending for the Tailor, he told him that, seeing he was so great a hero, he wished to beg a favor of him. " 1 For for ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 5 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 deliberated deliberate VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 till till SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 9 finally finally ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 10 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 12 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 decision decision NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 18 sending send VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 24 advcl _ _ 19 for for ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 Tailor tailor NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 23 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 25 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 iobj _ _ 26 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 24 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 seeing see VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 24 advcl _ _ 29 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 30 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 31 so so ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 ccomp _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 hero hero NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 37 wished wish VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 38 to to PART TO _ 39 mark _ _ 39 beg beg VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 xcomp _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 favor favor NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ _ 42 of of ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ 45 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **deliberate** | past | Tailor | | | | time | | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **come** | past | Tailor | | | a decision | | finally *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to decision=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **send** | gerund | Tailor *not said here* | | | | | for the Tailor | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Tailor | that | King | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient that=Topic | | 5 | **see** | gerund | Tailor *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **is** | past | Tailor | | | | | a hero *obl:unmarked*; great *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **wish** | past | Tailor | | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 8 | **beg** *speech: request* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Tailor *not said here* | a favor of Tailor | | | | | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent favor=Recipient | | 9 | **favor** | | | Tailor | | | | | nom favor «act transitive»: of=patient | 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 76](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/13/76/) - next →: [sentence 78](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/13/78/) - ↑ back to [The Valiant Little Tailor](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/13/)