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title: As soon as the boar perceived the Tailor, it ran at him with gaping… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: As soon as the boar perceived the Tailor, it ran at him with gaping mouth and glistening teeth, and tried to throw him down on the ground; but our flying hero sprang into a little chapel which stood near, and out again at a window, on the other side, in a moment. Who acts: boar, flying hero, little 
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 113

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As soon as the boar perceived the Tailor, it ran at him with gaping mouth and glistening teeth, and tried to throw him down on the ground; but our flying hero sprang into a little chapel which stood near, and out again at a window, on the other side, in a moment.

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**Who acts:** boar, flying hero, little chapel · **What happens:** perceive, run, gape, glisten, try, throw down · **To what, where:** Tailor, mouth, teeth, ground, little chapel

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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 (boar, flying hero, little chapel), 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:pg11027:13:113
# text = As soon as the boar perceived the Tailor, it ran at him with gaping mouth and glistening teeth, and tried to throw him down on the ground; but our flying hero sprang into a little chapel which stood near, and out again at a window, on the other side, in a moment.
1	As	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	boar	boar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	perceived	perceive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Tailor	tailor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
14	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	gaping	gape	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
16	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	glistening	glisten	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	conj	_	_
19	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	throw	throw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	down	down	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
31	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
32	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
33	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	34	amod	_	_
34	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
35	sprang	spring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
36	into	into	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	chapel	chapel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
40	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	41	nsubj	_	_
41	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	acl:relcl	_	_
42	near	near	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	out	out	ADV	RB	_	35	parataxis	_	_
46	again	again	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
47	at	at	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
51	on	on	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
53	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	_
54	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
56	in	in	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
57	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
58	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **perceive** | past | the boar | the Tailor |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer tailor=Stimulus |
| 2 | **run** | past | boar |  |  |  |  | at Tailor; soon *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at he=Trajectory |
| 3 | **gape** | gerund | boar *not said here* | mouth |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouth=Theme |
| 4 | **glisten** | gerund | boar *not said here* | teeth |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tooth=Theme |
| 5 | **try** | past | boar *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 6 | **throw down** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | boar *not said here* | Tailor |  | the ground |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent he=Theme on ground=Destination |
| 7 | **fly** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **spring** | past | our flying hero |  |  | a little chapel | moment | at a window; on the other side | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into chapel=Destination |
| 9 | **stand** | past | a little chapel |  |  |  |  | near *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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