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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 114

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The boar ran after him, but he, skipping around, closed the door behind it, and there the furious beast was caught, for it was much too unwieldy and heavy to jump out of the window.

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**Who acts:** boar, Tailor · **What happens:** run, skip around, close, catch, be, jump out · **To what, where:** door, boar, furious beast, window

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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, Tailor), 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:pg11027:13:114
# text = The boar ran after him, but he, skipping around, closed the door behind it, and there the furious beast was caught, for it was much too unwieldy and heavy to jump out of the window.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boar	boar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	after	after	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	skipping	skip	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
11	around	around	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	closed	close	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
20	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	25	expl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	furious	furious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	caught	catch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
27	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
30	much	much	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
31	too	too	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	unwieldy	unwieldy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	parataxis	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	conj	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	jump	jump	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	xcomp	_	_
37	out	out	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | past | the boar |  |  |  | after Tailor |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **skip around** | gerund | Tailor |  |  |  |  | around *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **close** | participle | Tailor *not said here* | the door |  | boar |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient |
| 4 | **catch** | past · passive |  | the furious beast |  | there |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | past | boar |  |  |  |  | unwieldy *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **be** |  | boar *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **jump out** | to-infinitive | boar *not said here* | the window |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme window=Trajectory |

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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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