--- title: At midnight, when the giant thought the little tailor was fast aslee… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: At midnight, when the giant thought the little tailor was fast asleep, he rose up, and taking his big iron walking-stick, he broke the bed in two with a blow, and thought he had made an end of the little grasshopper. Who acts: giant, little tailor, tailor. 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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 (giant, little tailor, tailor), 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:pg503:42:62 # text = At midnight, when the giant thought the little tailor was fast asleep, he rose up, and taking his big iron walking-stick, he broke the bed in two with a blow, and thought he had made an end of the little grasshopper. 1 At at ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 midnight midnight NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 7 advmod _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 nsubj _ _ 7 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 tailor tailor NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 11 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 12 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 13 advmod _ _ 13 asleep asleep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 rose rise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 17 up up ADP RP _ 16 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 taking take VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 advcl _ _ 21 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 22 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 23 iron iron NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 24 walking walking NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 25 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 stick stick NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 broke break VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 bed bed NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 29 obl _ _ 34 with with ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 blow blow NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 40 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 41 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 42 aux _ _ 42 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 39 ccomp _ _ 43 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obj _ _ 45 of of ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 47 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 amod _ _ 48 grasshopper grasshopper NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | the giant | | | | midnight | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | past | the little tailor | | | | | asleep, fast *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **rise up** | past | tailor | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **take** | gerund | tailor *not said here* | tailor's big iron walking stick | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Theme | | 5 | **break** | past | tailor | the bed | | two | | with a blow | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent bed=Patient with blow=Instrument | | 6 | **think** *speech: other* | past | | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 7 | **make** | past · perfect | tailor | a end of the little grasshopper | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent end=Product | 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:** «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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 61](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/42/61/) - next →: [sentence 63](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/42/63/) - ↑ back to [The Brave Little Tailor](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/42/)