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title: This rang pleasantly in the tailor’s ears; he stretched his delicate… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: This rang pleasantly in the tailor’s ears; he stretched his delicate head out of the window, and called: ‘Come up here, dear woman; here you will get rid of your goods.’ Who acts: This, tailor, you. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Valiant Little Tailor, with its dependency tr
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 4

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This rang pleasantly in the tailor’s ears; he stretched his delicate head out of the window, and called: ‘Come up here, dear woman; here you will get rid of your goods.’

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**Who acts:** This, tailor, you · **What happens:** ring, stretch, call, come up, get · **To what, where:** ears, delicate head, window · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (This, tailor, you), 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:pg2591:19:4
# text = This rang pleasantly in the tailor’s ears; he stretched his delicate head out of the window, and called: ‘Come up here, dear woman; here you will get rid of your goods.’
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	nsubj	_	_
2	rang	ring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	pleasantly	pleasantly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	tailor	tailor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’s	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	stretched	stretch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	delicate	delicate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	out	out	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
23	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	Come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
25	up	up	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
31	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	34	advmod	_	_
32	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
35	rid	rid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	xcomp	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	goods	goods	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	34	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ring** | past | This |  |  | the tailor's ears |  | pleasantly *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ear=Location |
| 2 | **stretch** | past | tailor | tailor's delicate head |  | the window |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent head=Patient |
| 3 | **call** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **come up** | infinitive |  |  |  | here |  | dear woman *vocative* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **get** | future | you |  |  | here |  | rid *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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