--- title: Oh, yes," he replied, "I will soon settle these two Giants, and a hu… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics description: Oh, yes," he replied, "I will soon settle these two Giants, and a hundred horsemen are not needed for that purpose; he who kills seven at one blow has no fear of two." Who acts: kingdom, I, one blow. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Valiant Little Tailor, with its dependency --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/13/81/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Grimm's Fairy Stories](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/) / [The Valiant Little Tailor](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/13/) / 81 # Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 81 Oh, yes," he replied, "I will soon settle these two Giants, and a hundred horsemen are not needed for that purpose; he who kills seven at one blow has no fear of two." **Who acts:** kingdom, I, one blow · **What happens:** reply, settle, not need, kill, have · **To what, where:** two Giants, hundred horsemen, seven, fear · **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 (kingdom, I, one blow), 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:pg11027:13:81 # text = Oh, yes," he replied, "I will soon settle these two Giants, and a hundred horsemen are not needed for that purpose; he who kills seven at one blow has no fear of two." 1 Oh oh INTJ UH _ 7 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 yes yes INTJ UH Polarity=Pos 7 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ _ 6 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 replied reply VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 11 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 12 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 13 advmod _ _ 13 settle settle VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 14 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 16 det _ _ 15 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ _ 16 Giants Giant PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 13 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 21 nummod _ _ 21 horsemen horseman NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj:pass _ _ 22 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux:pass _ _ 23 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 24 advmod _ _ 24 needed need VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 parataxis _ _ 25 for for ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 27 det _ _ 27 purpose purpose NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 ; ; PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 29 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 30 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 31 nsubj _ _ 31 kills kill VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 32 seven seven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 31 obj _ _ 33 at at SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 34 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 35 nummod _ _ 35 blow blow NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 36 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 advcl _ _ 37 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 38 det _ _ 38 fear fear NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 38 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 " " PUNCT '' _ 31 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | kingdom | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **settle** | future | I | this two Giants | | | | soon *property* | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme giant=Location | | 3 | **not** **need** | present · passive | | a hundred horsemen | | | | for that purpose | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme | | 4 | **kill** | present | kingdom | seven | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seven=Theme | | 5 | **have** | present | one blow | no fear of two | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fear=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 80](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/13/80/) - next →: [sentence 82](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/13/82/) - ↑ back to [The Valiant Little Tailor](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/13/)