--- title: If you overcome and slay both these Giants, I will give you my only… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics description: If you overcome and slay both these Giants, I will give you my only daughter in marriage, and half of my kingdom for a dowry: a hundred knights shall accompany you, too, in order to render you assistance." Who acts: you, I, hundred knights. 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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 (you, I, hundred knights), 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:pg11027:13:79 # text = If you overcome and slay both these Giants, I will give you my only daughter in marriage, and half of my kingdom for a dowry: a hundred knights shall accompany you, too, in order to render you assistance." 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 overcome overcome VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 slay slay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 6 both both ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 7 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 8 det _ _ 8 Giants Giant PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 10 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 11 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 13 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 12 iobj _ _ 14 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 15 only only ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 marriage marriage NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 12 parataxis _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 kingdom kingdom NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 25 for for ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 dowry dowry NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 : : PUNCT : _ 33 punct _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 31 nummod _ _ 31 knights knight NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 32 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 accompany accompany VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 parataxis _ _ 34 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 36 too too ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 38 in in SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 41 mark _ _ 39 order order NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 fixed _ _ 40 to to PART TO _ 41 mark _ _ 41 render render VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 conj _ _ 42 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 41 obj _ _ 43 assistance assistance NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 45 " " PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **overcome** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | | | | | | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | | 2 | **slay** | present | you *not said here* | this Giants | | | | | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent giant=Patient | | 3 | **give** | future | I | my daughter | you | marriage | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient daughter=Theme | | 4 | **accompany** | shall | a hundred knights | you | | | | | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | | 5 | **render** | to-infinitive | a hundred knights *not said here* | assistance | you | | | | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient assistance=Theme | 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 78](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/13/78/) - next →: [sentence 80](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/13/80/) - ↑ back to [The Valiant Little Tailor](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/13/)