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title: The first is that of the Valiant Tailor (Grimm, No. 20); to this bel… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The first is that of the Valiant Tailor (Grimm, No. 20); to this belong the incidents of the fleabite blows (for variants of which see Köhler in _Jahrb. rom. eng. Who acts: first, this, Valiant Tailor, variants. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XIX. Jack the Giant-killer., with 
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# English Fairy Tales, XIX. Jack the Giant-killer., sentence 7

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The first is that of the Valiant Tailor (Grimm, No. 20); to this belong the incidents of the fleabite blows (for variants of which see Köhler in \_Jahrb. rom. eng.

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**Who acts:** first, this, Valiant Tailor, variants · **What happens:** be, belong, blow, see · **To what, where:** incidents, eng, Köhler, \_

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XIX. Jack the Giant-killer.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (first, this, Valiant Tailor, variants), 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:pg7439:69:7
# text = The first is that of the Valiant Tailor (Grimm, No. 20); to this belong the incidents of the fleabite blows (for variants of which see Köhler in _Jahrb. rom. eng.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	8	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Valiant	valiant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Tailor	tailor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
9	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Grimm	Grimm	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	No.	No.	PROPN	NNP	Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	nsubj	_	_
18	belong	belong	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	incidents	incident	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	fleabite	fleabite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	blows	blow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
25	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	variants	variant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
30	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	_
31	Köhler	Köhler	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	Jahrb	Jahrb	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	36	punct	_	_
36	rom	ROM	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
38	eng	eng	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the first |  |  |  |  | of the Valiant Tailor | tree rules |
| 2 | **belong** | infinitive | this | the incidents of the fleabite |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **blow** | present | the Valiant Tailor | eng |  |  |  | for variants | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for variant=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **see** | present | variants | Köhler |  | \_ |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer köhler=Stimulus |

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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:** «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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