--- title: He inspected each one, lifted it up, put his nose to it, and at leng… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: He inspected each one, lifted it up, put his nose to it, and at length said: ‘The jam seems to me to be good, so weigh me out four ounces, dear woman, and if it is a quarter of a pound that is of no consequence.’ Who acts: tailor, jam, head, that. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tailor, jam, head, that), 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:pg2591:19:6 # text = He inspected each one, lifted it up, put his nose to it, and at length said: ‘The jam seems to me to be good, so weigh me out four ounces, dear woman, and if it is a quarter of a pound that is of no consequence.’ 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 inspected inspect VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 4 det _ _ 4 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 lifted lift VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 7 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obj _ _ 8 up up ADP RP _ 6 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 11 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 nose nose NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 at at ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 length length NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 19 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 20 : : PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 21 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 jam jam NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 seems seem VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 ccomp _ _ 25 to to ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 24 obl _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 28 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 29 cop _ _ 29 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 so so ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 weigh weigh VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 conj _ _ 33 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ _ 34 out out ADP RP _ 32 compound:prt _ _ 35 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 36 nummod _ _ 36 ounces ounce NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 dear dear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 42 if if SCONJ IN _ 46 mark _ _ 43 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 46 nsubj _ _ 44 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 46 cop _ _ 45 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 quarter quarter NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ _ 47 of of ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 48 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 49 pound pound NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 nmod _ _ 50 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 54 nsubj _ _ 51 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 54 cop _ _ 52 of of ADP IN _ 54 case _ _ 53 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 54 det _ _ 54 consequence consequence NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 55 . . PUNCT . _ 54 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 56 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 54 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **inspect** | past | tailor | each one | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | | 2 | **lift up** | past | tailor *not said here* | head | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 3 | **put** | infinitive | tailor *not said here* | tailor's nose | head | | | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent nose=Goal | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | | | | length | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **seem** | present | the jam | | me | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **is** | to-infinitive | the jam *not said here* | | | | | good *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **weigh out** | infinitive | the jam *not said here* | me | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **is a** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | head | a quarter and no consequence | | | | of a pound | tree rules | | 9 | **is** | present | that | | | | | of no consequence | tree rules | 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 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/19/5/) - next →: [sentence 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/19/7/) - ↑ back to [The Valiant Little Tailor](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/19/)