--- title: The King and his huntsmen perceived the beautiful animal, and pursue… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics description: The King and his huntsmen perceived the beautiful animal, and pursued him; but they could not catch him, and when they thought they certainly had him, he sprang away over the bushes, and got out of sight. Who acts: King, huntsmen. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Little Brot --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/7/28/) [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 Little Brother and Sister](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/7/) / 28 # Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Little Brother and Sister, sentence 28 The King and his huntsmen perceived the beautiful animal, and pursued him; but they could not catch him, and when they thought they certainly had him, he sprang away over the bushes, and got out of sight. **Who acts:** King, huntsmen · **What happens:** perceive, pursue, not catch, think, have, spring away · **To what, where:** beautiful animal, King, bushes, sight · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Little Brother and Sister. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, huntsmen), 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:pg11027:7:28 # text = The King and his huntsmen perceived the beautiful animal, and pursued him; but they could not catch him, and when they thought they certainly had him, he sprang away over the bushes, and got out of sight. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 4 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 huntsmen huntsman NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ 6 perceived perceive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 pursued pursue VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 13 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 15 but but CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 16 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 17 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 18 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 19 catch catch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 20 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 25 advmod _ _ 24 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 advcl _ _ 26 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 27 certainly certainly ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 ccomp _ _ 29 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 sprang spring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 33 away away ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 34 over over ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 bushes bush NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 40 out out ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **perceive** | past | the King and King's huntsmen | the beautiful animal | | | | | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer animal=Stimulus | | 2 | **pursue** | past | the King and King's huntsmen *not said here* | King | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 3 | **not** **catch** | could | huntsmen *= huntsman* | King | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 4 | **think** *speech: other* | past | huntsmen *= huntsman* | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 5 | **have** | past | huntsmen *= huntsman* | King | | | | certainly *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | | 6 | **spring away** | past | King | | | the bushes | | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over bush=Trajectory | | 7 | **get out** | past | | sight | | | | | tree rules | 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 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/7/27/) - next →: [sentence 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/7/29/) - ↑ back to [The Little Brother and Sister](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/7/)