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title: In a forest of his country lived two giants, who caused great mischi… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: In a forest of his country lived two giants, who caused great mischief with their robbing, murdering, ravaging, and burning, and no one could approach them without putting himself in danger of death. Who acts: two giants, people, one. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Valiant L
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 85

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In a forest of his country lived two giants, who caused great mischief with their robbing, murdering, ravaging, and burning, and no one could approach them without putting himself in danger of death.

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**Who acts:** two giants, people, one · **What happens:** live, cause, rob, murder, ravage, burn · **To what, where:** two giants, forest, great mischief, people, king, danger

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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 (two giants, people, 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:pg2591:19:85
# text = In a forest of his country lived two giants, who caused great mischief with their robbing, murdering, ravaging, and burning, and no one could approach them without putting himself in danger of death.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	giants	giant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	caused	cause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	mischief	mischief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	robbing	rob	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	murdering	murder	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	ravaging	ravage	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
27	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	28	det	_	_
28	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
29	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	approach	approach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
31	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
33	putting	put	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	30	advcl	_	_
34	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	33	obj	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past |  | two giants |  | a forest of king's country |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme giant=Location |
| 2 | **cause** | past | two giants | great mischief |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition mischief=Patient |
| 3 | **rob** | gerund | people |  |  |  |  |  | vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **murder** | gerund | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **ravage** | gerund | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **burn** | gerund | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **approach** | could | no one | people |  |  |  |  | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 8 | **put** | gerund | no one *not said here* | king |  | danger of death |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme in danger=Destination |

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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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