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title: The boar ran after him, but the tailor ran round outside and shut th… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The boar ran after him, but the tailor ran round outside and shut the door behind it, and then the raging beast, which was much too heavy and awkward to leap out of the window, was caught. Who acts: boar, tailor, raging beast. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Valiant Little Ta
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 129

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The boar ran after him, but the tailor ran round outside and shut the door behind it, and then the raging beast, which was much too heavy and awkward to leap out of the window, was caught.

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**Who acts:** boar, tailor, raging beast · **What happens:** run, shut, rage, be, leap out, catch · **To what, where:** door, boar, window

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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, tailor, raging beast), 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:pg2591:19:129
# text = The boar ran after him, but the tailor ran round outside and shut the door behind it, and then the raging beast, which was much too heavy and awkward to leap out of the window, was caught.
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	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	tailor	tailor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	round	round	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	shut	shut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	advmod	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	raging	rage	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	amod	_	_
24	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
28	much	much	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
29	too	too	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	parataxis	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	awkward	awkward	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	conj	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	leap	leap	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	xcomp	_	_
35	out	out	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	aux:pass	_	_
41	caught	catch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	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 | **run** | past | the tailor |  |  |  |  | outside, round *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **shut** | infinitive | the tailor *not said here* | the door |  | boar |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent door=Patient |
| 4 | **rage** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | past | the raging beast |  |  |  |  | heavy *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **be** |  | the raging beast *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **leap out** | to-infinitive | the raging beast *not said here* | the window |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme window=Trajectory |
| 8 | **catch** | past · passive | the boar *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP» |

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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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