--- title: The little tailor at last lost all patience, and drew a piece of clo… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: The little tailor at last lost all patience, and drew a piece of cloth from the hole under his work-table, and saying: ‘Wait, and I will give it to you,’ struck it mercilessly on them. Who acts: little tailor, I, ’. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little tailor, I, ’), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2591:19:14 # text = The little tailor at last lost all patience, and drew a piece of cloth from the hole under his work-table, and saying: ‘Wait, and I will give it to you,’ struck it mercilessly on them. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 tailor tailor NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 4 at at SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 5 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 lost lose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 acl:relcl _ _ 7 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 8 det _ _ 8 patience patience NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 drew draw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 piece piece NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 cloth cloth NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 16 from from ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 hole hole NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 19 under under ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 20 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 21 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 22 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 table table NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 : : PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ _ 28 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 Wait wait VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 32 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 33 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 34 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 conj _ _ 35 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obj _ _ 36 to to ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 ’ ' PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 40 struck strike VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 advcl _ _ 41 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 obj _ _ 42 mercilessly mercilessly ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 43 on on ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lose** | participle | the little tailor *not said here* | all patience | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent patience=Eventuality | | 2 | **draw** | past | the little tailor | a piece of cloth | | the hole under tailor's work table | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent piece=Theme from hole=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | the little tailor *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **wait** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **give** | future | I | piece | you | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to you=Recipient | | 6 | **strike** | past | ’ | piece | | | | on flies *= fly*; mercilessly *property* | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent it=Instrument on they=Patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/19/13/) - next →: [sentence 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/19/15/) - ↑ back to [The Valiant Little Tailor](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/19/)