--- title: When it was midnight, and the giant thought that the little tailor w… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: When it was midnight, and the giant thought that the little tailor was lying in a sound sleep, he got up, took a great iron bar, cut through the bed with one blow, and thought he had finished off the grasshopper for good. Who acts: bed, giant, little tailor, tailor. 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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 (bed, giant, little tailor, tailor), 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:pg2591:19:63 # text = When it was midnight, and the giant thought that the little tailor was lying in a sound sleep, he got up, took a great iron bar, cut through the bed with one blow, and thought he had finished off the grasshopper for good. 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 midnight midnight NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 nsubj _ _ 9 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 that that SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 tailor tailor NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 14 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 lying lie VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 advcl _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 sleep sleep NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 23 up up ADP RP _ 22 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 27 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 28 iron iron NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 bar bar NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 31 cut cut VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 29 acl _ _ 32 through through ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 bed bed NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 35 with with ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 37 nummod _ _ 37 blow blow NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 41 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 42 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ _ 43 finished finish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 40 ccomp _ _ 44 off off ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 grasshopper grasshopper NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obl _ _ 47 for for ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 48 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | bed | midnight | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | the giant | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **lie** | past · progressive | the little tailor | | | a sound sleep | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in sleep=Location | | 4 | **get up** | past | tailor | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **take** | past | tailor *not said here* | a great iron bar | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bar=Theme | | 6 | **cut** | participle | | a great iron bar *not said here* | | | | with one blow; through the bed | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent through bed=Patient | | 7 | **think** *speech: other* | past | the giant *not said here* | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 8 | **finish off** | past · perfect | tailor | the grasshopper | | | | for good | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector grasshopper=Eventuality | 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 62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/19/62/) - next →: [sentence 64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/19/64/) - ↑ back to [The Valiant Little Tailor](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/19/)