--- title: Not knowing what better to do, he came into the plan, and learnt tai… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Not knowing what better to do, he came into the plan, and learnt tailoring from the beginning; and when he left his master, he gave him a needle, and said, ‘You can sew anything with this, be it as soft as an egg or as hard as steel; and the joint will be so fine that no seam will be seen.’ Who acts --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/43/22/) [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 Four Clever Brothers](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/43/) / 22 # Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Four Clever Brothers, sentence 22 Not knowing what better to do, he came into the plan, and learnt tailoring from the beginning; and when he left his master, he gave him a needle, and said, ‘You can sew anything with this, be it as soft as an egg or as hard as steel; and the joint will be so fine that no seam will be seen.’ **Who acts:** man, You, joint · **What happens:** not know, do, come, learn, tailor, leave · **To what, where:** plan, beginning, master, needle, craft, anything · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Four Clever Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, You, joint), 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:pg2591:43:22 # text = Not knowing what better to do, he came into the plan, and learnt tailoring from the beginning; and when he left his master, he gave him a needle, and said, ‘You can sew anything with this, be it as soft as an egg or as hard as steel; and the joint will be so fine that no seam will be seen.’ 1 Not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 2 advmod _ _ 2 knowing know VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 advcl _ _ 3 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 2 obj _ _ 4 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 3 amod _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 into into ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 plan plan NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 learnt learn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 16 tailoring tailor VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 15 xcomp _ _ 17 from from ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 beginning beginning NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 22 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 24 advmod _ _ 23 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 left leave VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 advcl _ _ 25 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 master master NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 28 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 30 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 iobj _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 needle needle NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 37 ‘ ‘ SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ SpaceAfter=No 38 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 39 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 40 sew sew VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 ccomp _ _ 41 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 40 obj _ _ 42 with with ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 45 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 48 cop _ _ 46 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 obj _ _ 47 as as ADV RB _ 48 advmod _ _ 48 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 conj _ _ 49 as as ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 50 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 51 egg egg NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 obl _ _ 52 or or CCONJ CC _ 54 cc _ _ 53 as as ADV RB _ 54 advmod _ _ 54 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 51 conj _ _ 55 as as ADP IN _ 56 case _ _ 56 steel steel NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 57 ; ; PUNCT , _ 64 punct _ _ 58 and and CCONJ CC _ 64 cc _ _ 59 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 60 det _ _ 60 joint joint NOUN NN Number=Sing 64 nsubj _ _ 61 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 64 aux _ _ 62 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 64 cop _ _ 63 so so ADV RB _ 64 advmod _ _ 64 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 conj _ _ 65 that that SCONJ IN _ 70 mark _ _ 66 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 67 det _ _ 67 seam seam NOUN NN Number=Sing 70 nsubj:pass _ _ 68 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 70 aux _ _ 69 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 70 aux:pass _ _ 70 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 64 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 71 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 72 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **know** | gerund | man *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | | 2 | **do** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **come** | past | man | | | the plan | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into plan=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **learn** | past | man *not said here* | | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **tailor** | gerund | man *not said here* | | | | from the beginning | | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **leave** | past | man | man's master | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent master=Theme | | 7 | **give** | past | man | a needle | craft | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient needle=Theme | | 8 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | man *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 9 | **sew** | can | You | anything | | | | with this | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient with this=Co-Patient | | 10 | **is** | infinitive | You *not said here* | | | | | as a egg; soft *property* | tree rules | | 11 | **is** | future | the joint | | | | | fine *property* | tree rules | | 12 | **see** | future · passive | | no seam | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | 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 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/43/21/) - next →: [sentence 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/43/23/) - ↑ back to [The Four Clever Brothers](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/43/)