--- title: Then he ran off into the forest, peering about him on all sides; and… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics description: Then he ran off into the forest, peering about him on all sides; and after a while he saw the two Giants sound asleep under a tree, snoring so loudly that the branches above them shook violently. Who acts: Giant, two Giants, branches. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Valiant --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/13/83/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Grimm's Fairy Stories](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/) / [The Valiant Little Tailor](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/13/) / 83 # Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 83 Then he ran off into the forest, peering about him on all sides; and after a while he saw the two Giants sound asleep under a tree, snoring so loudly that the branches above them shook violently. **Who acts:** Giant, two Giants, branches · **What happens:** run off, peer, see, sound, snore, shake · **To what, where:** forest, sides · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Giant, two Giants, branches), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg11027:13:83 # text = Then he ran off into the forest, peering about him on all sides; and after a while he saw the two Giants sound asleep under a tree, snoring so loudly that the branches above them shook violently. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 off off ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 5 into into ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 forest forest NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 peering peer VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 10 about about ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obl _ _ 12 on on ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 14 det _ _ 14 sides side NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 17 after after ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 while while NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 20 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 24 nummod _ _ 24 Giants Giant PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 25 sound sound VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 ccomp _ _ 26 asleep asleep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 xcomp _ _ 27 under under ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 31 snoring snore VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 conj _ _ 32 so so ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 loudly loudly ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 34 that that SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 branches branch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 nsubj _ _ 37 above above ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nmod _ _ 39 shook shake VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 advcl _ _ 40 violently violently ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **run off** | past | Giant | | | | then | into the forest *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into forest=Result | | 2 | **peer** | gerund | Giant *not said here* | | | all sides | | about Giant | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about he=Theme | | 3 | **see** | past | Giant | | | | while | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 4 | **sound** | present | the two Giants | | | | | asleep *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 5 | **snore** | gerund | Giant *not said here* | | | | | loudly *property* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **shake** | past | the branches above knights | | | | | violently *property* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 82](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/13/82/) - next →: [sentence 84](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/13/84/) - ↑ back to [The Valiant Little Tailor](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/13/)