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title: The horsemen would not believe him, and rode into the forest; there… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The horsemen would not believe him, and rode into the forest; there they found the giants swimming in their blood, and all round about lay the torn-up trees. Who acts: horsemen, giants. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Valiant Little Tailor, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 112

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The horsemen would not believe him, and rode into the forest; there they found the giants swimming in their blood, and all round about lay the torn-up trees.

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**Who acts:** horsemen, giants · **What happens:** not believe, ride, find, swim, lie, tear up · **To what, where:** tailor, forest, giants, blood, torn trees

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» 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 (horsemen, giants), 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:pg2591:19:112
# text = The horsemen would not believe him, and rode into the forest; there they found the giants swimming in their blood, and all round about lay the torn-up trees.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	horsemen	horseman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	believe	believe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
14	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	16	expl	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	giants	giant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	swimming	swim	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	acl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	all	all	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	28	advmod	_	_
26	round	round	ADV	RB	_	25	fixed	_	_
27	about	about	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
30	torn	tear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	up	up	ADP	RP	_	30	compound:prt	_	_
33	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **believe** | would | the horsemen | tailor |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 2 | **ride** | past | the horsemen *not said here* |  |  | the forest |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent into forest=Trajectory |
| 3 | **find** | past | horsemen *= horseman* | the giants |  | there |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent giant=Topic |
| 4 | **swim** | gerund | the giants *not said here* |  |  | horsemen's blood |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in blood=Trajectory |
| 5 | **lie** | past | horsemen *= horseman* *not said here* | the torn trees |  |  |  | about, all *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tree=Theme |
| 6 | **tear up** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:** «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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