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title: The giant made the attempt but he could not get over the tree, and r… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The giant made the attempt but he could not get over the tree, and remained hanging in the branches, so that in this also the tailor kept the upper hand. Who acts: giant, Jump. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Valiant Little Tailor, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 56

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The giant made the attempt but he could not get over the tree, and remained hanging in the branches, so that in this also the tailor kept the upper hand.

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**Who acts:** giant, Jump · **What happens:** make, not get, remain, hang, keep · **To what, where:** attempt, tree, branches, upper 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 (giant, Jump), 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:pg2591:19:56
# text = The giant made the attempt but he could not get over the tree, and remained hanging in the branches, so that in this also the tailor kept the upper hand.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	attempt	attempt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
11	over	over	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
17	hanging	hang	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	xcomp	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
22	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	29	mark	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	fixed	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	28	nsubj	_	_
26	also	also	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	tailor	tailor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
29	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	upper	upper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | the giant | the attempt |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attempt=Product |
| 2 | **not** **get** | could | Jump |  |  | the tree |  |  | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme over tree=Destination |
| 3 | **remain** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **hang** | gerund |  |  |  | the branches |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in branch=Location |
| 5 | **keep** | past |  | the upper hand |  |  |  | in the tailor | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent hand=Theme in tailor=Location |

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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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