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title: The huntsmen, however, he left behind, to their great joy, for this… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: The huntsmen, however, he left behind, to their great joy, for this wild boar had already so often hunted them, that they saw no fun in now hunting it. Who acts: huntsmen, wild boar. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Valiant Little Tailor, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 112

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The huntsmen, however, he left behind, to their great joy, for this wild boar had already so often hunted them, that they saw no fun in now hunting it.

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**Who acts:** huntsmen, wild boar · **What happens:** leave behind, have, hunt, see, joy · **To what, where:** great joy, huntsmen, fun, boar

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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 (huntsmen, wild boar), 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:pg11027:13:112
# text = The huntsmen, however, he left behind, to their great joy, for this wild boar had already so often hunted them, that they saw no fun in now hunting it.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	huntsmen	huntsman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	however	however	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	behind	behind	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
17	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	boar	boar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
20	already	already	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	often	often	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	hunted	hunt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
27	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
29	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	30	det	_	_
30	fun	fun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
32	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	33	advmod	_	_
33	hunting	hunt	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	28	advcl	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave behind** | past | the huntsmen |  |  | huntsmen's great joy |  | behind, however *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to joy=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **have** | past | this wild boar |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **hunt** | past | this wild boar *not said here* | huntsmen *= huntsman* |  |  |  | often *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 4 | **see** | past | huntsmen *= huntsman* | no fun |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fun=Stimulus |
| 5 | **hunt** | gerund | huntsmen *= huntsman* *not said here* | boar |  |  | now |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 6 | **joy** |  | huntsmen *= huntsman* |  |  |  |  |  | nom joy «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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