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title: He had not to hunt long, for soon the unicorn approached, and prepar… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: He had not to hunt long, for soon the unicorn approached, and prepared to rush at him as if it would pierce him on the spot. " Who acts: Tailor, unicorn, Seven. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Valiant Little Tailor, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 106

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He had not to hunt long, for soon the unicorn approached, and prepared to rush at him as if it would pierce him on the spot. "

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**Who acts:** Tailor, unicorn, Seven · **What happens:** not hunt, approach, rush, pierce · **To what, where:** Tailor, spot

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This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» 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 (Tailor, unicorn, Seven), 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:pg11027:13:106
# text = He had not to hunt long, for soon the unicorn approached, and prepared to rush at him as if it would pierce him on the spot. "
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	hunt	hunt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	unicorn	unicorn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	approached	approach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	prepared	prepared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	rush	rush	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	_
20	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
21	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	pierce	pierce	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **hunt** | past | Tailor |  |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **approach** | past | the unicorn |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **rush** | to-infinitive | Tailor *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at Tailor | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at he=Trajectory |
| 4 | **pierce** | would | Seven | Tailor |  | the spot |  |  | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP PP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Instrument |

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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:** «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (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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