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title: The road led him up a mountain, and when he had reached the highest… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The road led him up a mountain, and when he had reached the highest point of it, there sat a powerful giant looking peacefully about him. Who acts: road, tailor. 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 25

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The road led him up a mountain, and when he had reached the highest point of it, there sat a powerful giant looking peacefully about him.

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**Who acts:** road, tailor · **What happens:** lead up, reach, sit, look, point · **To what, where:** tailor, highest point, powerful giant, road

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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 (road, 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:pg2591:19:25
# text = The road led him up a mountain, and when he had reached the highest point of it, there sat a powerful giant looking peacefully about him.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	13	mark	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	reached	reach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	highest	high	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	16	amod	_	_
16	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	21	expl	_	_
21	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	powerful	powerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
26	peacefully	peacefully	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	about	about	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead up** | past | the road | tailor |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **reach** | past · perfect | tailor | the highest point of road |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent point=Theme |
| 3 | **sit** | past |  | a powerful giant |  | there |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location giant=Theme |
| 4 | **look** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | about tailor; peacefully *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about he=Theme |
| 5 | **point** |  |  | road |  |  |  |  | nom point «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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