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title: ‘That would indeed be a fine thing for a man like me!’ thought the l… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘That would indeed be a fine thing for a man like me!’ thought the little tailor. Who acts: That, fine thing. 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 87

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‘That would indeed be a fine thing for a man like me!’ thought the little tailor.

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**Who acts:** That, fine thing · **What happens:** be, think · **To what, where:** fine thing, little tailor

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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 (That, fine thing), 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:pg2591:19:87
# text = ‘That would indeed be a fine thing for a man like me!’ thought the little tailor.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
4	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
16	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	tailor	tailor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | would | That | a fine thing |  |  |  | for a man like me; indeed *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | a fine thing | the little tailor |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot tailor=Theme |

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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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