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title: I killed two giants, I brought away one unicorn, and caught a wild b… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I killed two giants, I brought away one unicorn, and caught a wild boar, and am I to fear those who are standing outside the room.’ Who acts: I. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Valiant Little Tailor, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 142

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I killed two giants, I brought away one unicorn, and caught a wild boar, and am I to fear those who are standing outside the room.’

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** kill, bring away, catch, fear, stand · **To what, where:** two giants, one unicorn, wild boar, those, room

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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), 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:pg2591:19:142
# text = I killed two giants, I brought away one unicorn, and caught a wild boar, and am I to fear those who are standing outside the room.’
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	killed	kill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	giants	giant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	away	away	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	unicorn	unicorn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	boar	boar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	fear	fear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
23	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	22	obj	_	_
24	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
25	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	acl:relcl	_	_
27	outside	outside	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kill** | past | I | two giants |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent giant=Theme |
| 2 | **bring away** | past | I |  | one unicorn |  |  | away *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument unicorn=Destination |
| 3 | **catch** | past | I *not said here* | a wild boar |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boar=Theme |
| 4 | **fear** | present | I | those |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus |
| 5 | **stand** | present · progressive |  |  |  | the room |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent outside room=Location |

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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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