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title: Had he known that it was no warlike hero, but a little tailor who wa… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Had he known that it was no warlike hero, but a little tailor who was standing before him, it would have gone to his heart still more than it did. Who acts: hero, prisoner, little tailor. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Valiant Little Tailor, with its dependency tree and the 
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 132

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Had he known that it was no warlike hero, but a little tailor who was standing before him, it would have gone to his heart still more than it did.

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**Who acts:** hero, prisoner, little tailor · **What happens:** know, be, stand, go, do · **To what, where:** warlike hero, heart

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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 (hero, prisoner, little tailor), 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:pg2591:19:132
# text = Had he known that it was no warlike hero, but a little tailor who was standing before him, it would have gone to his heart still more than it did.
1	Had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	9	det	_	_
8	warlike	warlike	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	tailor	tailor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	acl:relcl	_	_
18	before	before	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	aux	_	_
24	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	still	still	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	24	advmod	_	_
30	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | past · perfect | hero |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is a** | past | prisoner | no warlike hero but a little tailor |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **stand** | past · progressive | a little tailor |  |  |  | before hero |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location |
| 4 | **go** | would · perfect | prisoner |  |  | hero's heart |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to heart=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **do** | past | prisoner |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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