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title: When the boar perceived the tailor, it ran on him with foaming mouth… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When the boar perceived the tailor, it ran on him with foaming mouth and whetted tusks, and was about to throw him to the ground, but the hero fled and sprang into a chapel which was near and up to the window at once, and in one bound out again. Who acts: boar, hero, chapel. A sentence of «Grimms' F
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 128

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When the boar perceived the tailor, it ran on him with foaming mouth and whetted tusks, and was about to throw him to the ground, but the hero fled and sprang into a chapel which was near and up to the window at once, and in one bound out again.

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**Who acts:** boar, hero, chapel · **What happens:** perceive, run, foam, whet, be, throw · **To what, where:** tailor, mouth, tusks, ground, chapel

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» 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, hero, 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:pg2591:19:128
# text = When the boar perceived the tailor, it ran on him with foaming mouth and whetted tusks, and was about to throw him to the ground, but the hero fled and sprang into a chapel which was near and up to the window at once, and in one bound out again.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	boar	boar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	perceived	perceive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	tailor	tailor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	_
12	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	foaming	foam	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
14	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	whetted	whet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
17	tusks	tusk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	about	about	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	parataxis	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	throw	throw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	fled	flee	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	sprang	spring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	conj	_	_
35	into	into	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	chapel	chapel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
38	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	42	nsubj	_	_
39	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	cop	_	_
40	near	near	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	up	up	ADV	RB	_	37	conj	_	_
43	to	to	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
46	at	at	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
50	in	in	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	52	obl	_	_
52	bound	bind	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
53	out	out	ADP	RP	_	52	compound:prt	_	_
54	again	again	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 |  |  |  |  | on tailor | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on he=Trajectory |
| 3 | **foam** | gerund | boar *not said here* | mouth |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location mouth=Theme |
| 4 | **whet** | past | boar *not said here* | tusks |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | about *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **throw** | to-infinitive |  | tailor |  | the ground |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent he=Theme to ground=Destination |
| 7 | **flee** | past | the hero |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **spring** | past | the hero *not said here* |  |  | a chapel |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into chapel=Destination |
| 9 | **is** | past | a chapel |  |  |  |  | to the window; near, up *property* | tree rules |
| 10 | **bind out** | participle | boar *not said here* |  |  |  | again | in one | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |

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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:** «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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