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title: Certainly a Goliath like you could creep in with ease, and throw out… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Certainly a Goliath like you could creep in with ease, and throw out the coins to us." Who acts: Goliath. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Travels of Tom Thumb, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Travels of Tom Thumb, sentence 20

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Certainly a Goliath like you could creep in with ease, and throw out the coins to us."

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**Who acts:** Goliath · **What happens:** creep in, throw out · **To what, where:** coins, us

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This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Travels of Tom Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Goliath), 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:pg11027:22:20
# text = Certainly a Goliath like you could creep in with ease, and throw out the coins to us."
1	Certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Goliath	goliath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nmod	_	_
6	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	creep	creep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	ease	ease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	throw	throw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
14	out	out	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	coins	coin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **creep in** | could | a Goliath like you |  |  |  |  | with ease; certainly *property* | vn swarm-47.5.1-1 «PP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with ease=Theme |
| 2 | **throw out** | infinitive | a Goliath like you *not said here* | the coins | us |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent coin=Theme to we=Destination |

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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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