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title: When he came to the outskirts of the forest, he said to his follower… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When he came to the outskirts of the forest, he said to his followers: ‘Just stay waiting here, I alone will soon finish off the giants.’ Who acts: tailor, I. 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 91

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When he came to the outskirts of the forest, he said to his followers: ‘Just stay waiting here, I alone will soon finish off the giants.’

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**Who acts:** tailor, I · **What happens:** come, say, stay, wait, finish off · **To what, where:** outskirts, giants · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (tailor, I), 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:pg2591:19:91
# text = When he came to the outskirts of the forest, he said to his followers: ‘Just stay waiting here, I alone will soon finish off the giants.’
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	outskirts	outskirt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	followers	follower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
17	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Just	just	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	_
20	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	xcomp	_	_
21	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
24	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
25	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	27	advmod	_	_
27	finish	finish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
28	off	off	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	giants	giant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | tailor |  |  | the outskirts of the forest |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to outskirt=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | tailor |  |  |  |  | to tailor's followers | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to follower=Experiencer clause=Topic |
| 3 | **stay** |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **wait** | gerund |  |  |  | here |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **finish off** | future | I | the giants |  |  |  | alone, soon *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector giant=Eventuality |

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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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