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title: ‘Now, I have got the bird,’ said the tailor, and came out from behin… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Now, I have got the bird,’ said the tailor, and came out from behind the tree and put the rope round its neck, and then with his axe he hewed the horn out of the tree, and when all was ready he led the beast away and took it to the king. Who acts: I, tailor, all. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales»
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 123

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‘Now, I have got the bird,’ said the tailor, and came out from behind the tree and put the rope round its neck, and then with his axe he hewed the horn out of the tree, and when all was ready he led the beast away and took it to the king.

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**Who acts:** I, tailor, all · **What happens:** get, say, come out, put, hew, be · **To what, where:** bird, tailor, tree, rope, horn, beast · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (I, tailor, all), 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:pg2591:19:123
# text = ‘Now, I have got the bird,’ said the tailor, and came out from behind the tree and put the rope round its neck, and then with his axe he hewed the horn out of the tree, and when all was ready he led the beast away and took it to the king.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	ccomp	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	tailor	tailor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
17	out	out	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	rope	rope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	round	round	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
31	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	36	advmod	_	_
32	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	axe	axe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
35	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	hewed	hew	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	horn	horn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
39	out	out	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
45	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	48	advmod	_	_
46	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	48	nsubj	_	_
47	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	cop	_	_
48	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	conj	_	_
49	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
50	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	ccomp	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obj	_	_
53	away	away	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	_
54	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
55	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	50	conj	_	_
56	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	55	obj	_	_
57	to	to	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
58	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
59	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | present · perfect | I | the bird |  |  | now |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bird=Stimulus |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  | the tailor |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **come out** | past |  |  |  | the tree |  | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **put** | infinitive |  | the rope |  |  |  | round tree's neck | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent rope=Goal |
| 5 | **hew** | past | tailor | the horn |  | the tree | then | with tailor's axe | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horn=Patient with axe=Instrument |
| 6 | **is** | past | all |  |  |  |  | ready *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **lead away** | past | tailor | the beast |  |  |  | away *property* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beast=Theme |
| 8 | **take** | past | tailor *not said here* | horn | the king |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to king=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:** «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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