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title: ‘Readily,’ answered the little man; ‘take you the trunk on your shou… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Readily,’ answered the little man; ‘take you the trunk on your shoulders, and I will raise up the branches and twigs; after all, they are the heaviest.’ Who acts: Readily, I, branches. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Valiant Little Tailor, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 44

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‘Readily,’ answered the little man; ‘take you the trunk on your shoulders, and I will raise up the branches and twigs; after all, they are the heaviest.’

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**Who acts:** Readily, I, branches · **What happens:** answer, take, raise up, be · **To what, where:** little man, you, shoulders, branches · **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 (Readily, I, branches), 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:pg2591:19:44
# text = ‘Readily,’ answered the little man; ‘take you the trunk on your shoulders, and I will raise up the branches and twigs; after all, they are the heaviest.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Readily	readily	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
10	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	trunk	trunk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	raise	raise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
23	up	up	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	twigs	twig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
29	after	after	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
32	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
33	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	heaviest	heavy	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	22	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Readily |  | the little man |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **take** | infinitive |  | you |  | your shoulders |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Theme trunk=Destination |
| 3 | **raise up** | future | I | the branches and twigs |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent branch=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | present | branches *= branch* |  |  |  | after all | heavy *property* | tree rules |

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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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