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title: This is too bad!" he exclaimed; and, jumping up like a madman, he fe… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: This is too bad!" he exclaimed; and, jumping up like a madman, he fell upon his companion, who considered himself equally injured, and they set to in such good earnest, that they rooted up trees and beat one another about until they both fell dead upon the ground. Who acts: This, Tailor, companion, 
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 94

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This is too bad!" he exclaimed; and, jumping up like a madman, he fell upon his companion, who considered himself equally injured, and they set to in such good earnest, that they rooted up trees and beat one another about until they both fell dead upon the ground.

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**Who acts:** This, Tailor, companion, stones · **What happens:** be, exclaim, jump up, fall, consider, set · **To what, where:** companion, Tailor, such good earnest, trees, one, ground · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (This, Tailor, companion, stones), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg11027:13:94
# text = This is too bad!" he exclaimed; and, jumping up like a madman, he fell upon his companion, who considered himself equally injured, and they set to in such good earnest, that they rooted up trees and beat one another about until they both fell dead upon the ground.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	too	too	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	jumping	jump	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	like	like	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	madman	madman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
20	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	companion	companion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	considered	consider	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
26	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	25	obj	_	_
27	equally	equally	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	injured	injured	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	obl	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
36	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	earnest	earn	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
40	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
41	rooted	root	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
42	up	up	ADP	RP	_	41	compound:prt	_	_
43	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	obj	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	beat	beat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	conj	_	_
46	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	45	obj	_	_
47	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	46	fixed	_	_
48	about	about	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
49	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	52	mark	_	_
50	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
51	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	52	nsubj	_	_
52	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	advcl	_	_
53	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	xcomp	_	_
54	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | This |  |  |  |  | bad *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **exclaim** *speech: express* *in a quote* | past | Tailor |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **jump up** *in a quote* | gerund | Tailor *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like a madman | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **fall** *in a quote* | past | Tailor |  |  | Tailor's companion |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon companion=Location |
| 5 | **consider** *in a quote* | past | Tailor's companion | Tailor |  |  |  | injured *property* | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent himself=Attribute |
| 6 | **set** *in a quote* | past | stones *= stone* |  |  | such good earnest |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in earn=Destination |
| 7 | **root up** *in a quote* | past | stones *= stone* | trees |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent tree=Patient |
| 8 | **beat** *in a quote* | infinitive | stones *= stone* *not said here* | one |  |  |  | about *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location one=Theme |
| 9 | **fall** *in a quote* | past | stones *= stone* |  |  | the ground |  | dead *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon ground=Location |

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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.

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**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.

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