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title: Nevertheless, he wished to try him first, and took a stone in his ha… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Nevertheless, he wished to try him first, and took a stone in his hand and squeezed it together so that water dropped out of it. Who acts: tailor, water. 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 33

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Nevertheless, he wished to try him first, and took a stone in his hand and squeezed it together so that water dropped out of it.

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**Who acts:** tailor, water · **What happens:** wish, try, take, squeeze, drop out · **To what, where:** tailor, stone, hand

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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 (tailor, water), 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:pg2591:19:33
# text = Nevertheless, he wished to try him first, and took a stone in his hand and squeezed it together so that water dropped out of it.
1	Nevertheless	nevertheless	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	wished	wish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	squeezed	squeeze	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	together	together	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
21	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	det	_	_
23	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	dropped	drop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
25	out	out	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wish** | past | tailor |  |  |  |  | nevertheless *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **try** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | tailor *not said here* | tailor |  |  |  | first *property* | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality |
| 3 | **take** | past |  | a stone |  | tailor's hand |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent stone=Value in hand=Location |
| 4 | **squeeze** | past |  | stone |  |  |  | together *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 5 | **drop out** | past | that water | stone |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

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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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