--- title: If the tailor conquered and killed these two giants, he would give h… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: If the tailor conquered and killed these two giants, he would give him his only daughter to wife, and half of his kingdom as a dowry, likewise one hundred horsemen should go with him to assist him. Who acts: tailor, hundred horsemen. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Valiant Li --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/19/86/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Grimms' Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/) / [The Valiant Little Tailor](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/19/) / 86 # Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 86 If the tailor conquered and killed these two giants, he would give him his only daughter to wife, and half of his kingdom as a dowry, likewise one hundred horsemen should go with him to assist him. **Who acts:** tailor, hundred horsemen · **What happens:** conquer, kill, give, go, assist · **To what, where:** two giants, only daughter, king 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 (tailor, hundred horsemen), 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:pg2591:19:86 # text = If the tailor conquered and killed these two giants, he would give him his only daughter to wife, and half of his kingdom as a dowry, likewise one hundred horsemen should go with him to assist him. 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 tailor tailor NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 conquered conquer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 killed kill VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 7 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 9 det _ _ 8 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 9 giants giant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 11 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 14 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 iobj _ _ 15 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 16 only only ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 13 parataxis _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 kingdom kingdom NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 26 as as ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 dowry dowry NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 30 likewise likewise ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 31 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 32 compound _ _ 32 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 33 nummod _ _ 33 horsemen horseman NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nsubj _ _ 34 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 parataxis _ _ 36 with with ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obl _ _ 38 to to PART TO _ 39 mark _ _ 39 assist assist VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 advcl _ _ 40 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **conquer** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | the tailor | | | | | | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **kill** | past | the tailor *not said here* | this two giants | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent giant=Theme | | 3 | **give** | would | tailor | king's only daughter | king | | | as a dowry | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient daughter=Theme | | 4 | **go** | should | hundred horsemen | | | | | with king; likewise *property* | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with he=Beneficiary | | 5 | **assist** | to-infinitive | hundred horsemen *not said here* | | king | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary | 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 85](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/19/85/) - next →: [sentence 87](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/19/87/) - ↑ back to [The Valiant Little Tailor](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/19/)