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description: The giant, after he had dragged the heavy burden part of the way, could go no further, and cried: ‘Hark you, I shall have to let the tree fall!’ Who acts: tailor, I. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Valiant Little Tailor, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 46

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The giant, after he had dragged the heavy burden part of the way, could go no further, and cried: ‘Hark you, I shall have to let the tree fall!’

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**Who acts:** tailor, I · **What happens:** drag, go, cry, have, let · **To what, where:** heavy burden part, Hark, tree fall

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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, 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:pg2591:19:46
# text = The giant, after he had dragged the heavy burden part of the way, could go no further, and cried: ‘Hark you, I shall have to let the tree fall!’
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	dragged	drag	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	burden	burden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
18	no	no	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	further	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
24	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	Hark	Hark	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	xcomp	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	fall	fall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	30	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drag** | past · perfect | tailor | the heavy burden part of the way |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | could | tailor *not said here* |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | past |  | Hark |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **have** | shall | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **let** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | the tree fall |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fall=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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