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title: ‘If we quarrel with him, and he strikes about him, seven of us will… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘If we quarrel with him, and he strikes about him, seven of us will fall at every blow; not one of us can stand against him.’ Who acts: we, tailor, seven, one. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Valiant Little Tailor, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 78

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‘If we quarrel with him, and he strikes about him, seven of us will fall at every blow; not one of us can stand against him.’

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**Who acts:** we, tailor, seven, one · **What happens:** quarrel, strike, fall, not stand · **To what, where:** blow

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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 (we, tailor, seven, one), 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:pg2591:19:78
# text = ‘If we quarrel with him, and he strikes about him, seven of us will fall at every blow; not one of us can stand against him.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	quarrel	quarrel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	strikes	strike	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
11	about	about	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nsubj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nmod	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	det	_	_
21	blow	blow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
24	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nsubj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nmod	_	_
27	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
29	against	against	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **quarrel** | present | we |  |  |  |  | with tailor | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with he=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **strike** | present | tailor |  |  |  |  | about king | tree rules |
| 3 | **fall** | future | seven of us |  |  | every blow |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at blow=Location |
| 4 | **not** **stand** | can | one of us |  |  |  |  | against tailor | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent against he=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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