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description: The whole day long they kept up with him, but towards evening the huntsmen made a circle around him, and one wounded him slightly in the hinder foot, so that he could run but slowly. Who acts: huntsmen, one, King. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Little Brother and Sister, w
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Little Brother and Sister, sentence 34

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The whole day long they kept up with him, but towards evening the huntsmen made a circle around him, and one wounded him slightly in the hinder foot, so that he could run but slowly.

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**Who acts:** huntsmen, one, King · **What happens:** keep up, make, wound, run · **To what, where:** circle, King, hinder foot

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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 (huntsmen, one, King), 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:pg11027:7:34
# text = The whole day long they kept up with him, but towards evening the huntsmen made a circle around him, and one wounded him slightly in the hinder foot, so that he could run but slowly.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	huntsmen	huntsman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	circle	circle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	around	around	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nsubj	_	_
24	wounded	wound	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	slightly	slightly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	hinder	hinder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
32	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	36	mark	_	_
33	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	32	fixed	_	_
34	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
35	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	parataxis	_	_
37	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	36	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep up** | past | huntsmen *= huntsman* |  |  |  |  | with King; long *property* | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **make** | past | the huntsmen | a circle |  |  | evening | around King | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset circle=Product |
| 3 | **wound** | past | one | King |  | the hinder foot |  | slightly *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |
| 4 | **run** | could | King |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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