--- title: Now this rock belonged to fierce giants who lived upon it; and as he… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Now this rock belonged to fierce giants who lived upon it; and as he saw three of them striding about, he thought to himself, ‘I can only save myself by feigning to be asleep’; so he laid himself down as if he were in a sound sleep. Who acts: rock, fierce giants, sleep, three. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rock, fierce giants, sleep, three), 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:pg2591:56:33 # text = Now this rock belonged to fierce giants who lived upon it; and as he saw three of them striding about, he thought to himself, ‘I can only save myself by feigning to be asleep’; so he laid himself down as if he were in a sound sleep. 1 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 2 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 3 det _ _ 3 rock rock NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 belonged belong VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 fierce fierce ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 giants giant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 8 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 9 nsubj _ _ 9 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 10 upon upon ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 14 as as SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 15 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 17 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 16 obj _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nmod _ _ 20 striding stride VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 16 xcomp _ _ 21 about about ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 25 to to ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 28 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 30 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 31 only only ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 save save VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 ccomp _ _ 33 myself myself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 32 obj _ _ 34 by by SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 35 feigning feign VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 32 advcl _ _ 36 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 37 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 38 cop _ _ 38 asleep asleep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 39 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 ; ; PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 41 so so ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 42 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 43 laid lay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 44 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 43 obj _ _ 45 down down ADP RP _ 43 compound:prt _ _ 46 as as SCONJ IN _ 53 mark _ _ 47 if if SCONJ IN _ 53 mark _ _ 48 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 53 nsubj _ _ 49 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 53 cop _ _ 50 in in ADP IN _ 53 case _ _ 51 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 53 det _ _ 52 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 compound _ _ 53 sleep sleep NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 54 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **belong** | past | this rock | | | | now | to fierce giants | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **live** | past | fierce giants | | | rock | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon it=Location | | 3 | **see** | past | sleep | three of giants | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **stride** | gerund | three of giants *not said here* | | | | | about *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **think** *speech: other* | past | sleep | | sleep | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 6 | **save** | can | I | myself | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Theme | | 7 | **feign** | gerund | I *not said here* | | | | | | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **is** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | | | | | asleep *property* | tree rules | | 9 | **lay down** | past | sleep | sleep | | | | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Result | | 10 | **is** | past | sleep | | | a sound sleep | | | tree rules | 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 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/56/32/) - next →: [sentence 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/56/34/) - ↑ back to [The Salad](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/56/)