--- title: The tailor sprang nimbly down, seized the tree with both arms as if… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: The tailor sprang nimbly down, seized the tree with both arms as if he had been carrying it, and said to the giant: ‘You are such a great fellow, and yet cannot even carry the tree!’ Who acts: tailor, You. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Valiant Little Tailor, with its depend --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/19/47/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Grimms' Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/) / [The Valiant Little Tailor](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/19/) / 47 # Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 47 The tailor sprang nimbly down, seized the tree with both arms as if he had been carrying it, and said to the giant: ‘You are such a great fellow, and yet cannot even carry the tree!’ **Who acts:** tailor, You · **What happens:** spring, seize, carry, say, be, not carry · **To what, where:** tree, giant, great fellow · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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, You), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2591:19:47 # text = The tailor sprang nimbly down, seized the tree with both arms as if he had been carrying it, and said to the giant: ‘You are such a great fellow, and yet cannot even carry the tree!’ 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 tailor tailor NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 sprang spring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 nimbly nimbly ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 down down ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 seized seize VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 with with ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 12 det _ _ 12 arms arm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 13 as as SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 14 if if SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 15 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 16 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 17 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 18 aux _ _ 18 carrying carry VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 advcl _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 23 to to ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 giant giant NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 : : PUNCT : _ 33 punct _ _ 27 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 29 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 30 such such DET PDT PronType=Ind 33 det:predet _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 fellow fellow NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 36 yet yet ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 37 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 38 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 40 advmod _ _ 39 even even ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 40 carry carry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 conj _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 ! ! PUNCT . _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 33 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **spring** | past | the tailor | | | | | down *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **seize** | past | the tailor *not said here* | the tree | | | | with both arms | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Theme | | 3 | **carry** | past · perfect · progressive | tailor | tree | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the tailor *not said here* | | the giant | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to giant=Recipient | | 5 | **is a** | present | You | such great fellow | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **not** **carry** | can | You *not said here* | the tree | | | yet | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/19/46/) - next →: [sentence 48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/19/48/) - ↑ back to [The Valiant Little Tailor](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/19/)