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title: The little tailor, not idle, gathered two pocketsful of stones, and… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The little tailor, not idle, gathered two pocketsful of stones, and with these climbed up the tree. Who acts: little tailor. 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 95

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The little tailor, not idle, gathered two pocketsful of stones, and with these climbed up the tree.

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**Who acts:** little tailor · **What happens:** gather, climb up · **To what, where:** two pocketsful stones, these

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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 (little tailor), 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:pg2591:19:95
# text = The little tailor, not idle, gathered two pocketsful of stones, and with these climbed up the tree.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	tailor	tailor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	idle	idle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	gathered	gather	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
10	pocketsful	pocketsful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	climbed	climb	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	parataxis	_	_
18	up	up	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **gather** | past | the little tailor | two pocketsful stones |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme |
| 2 | **climb up** | participle · passive |  | these |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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