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title: When these men heard the tailor speaking thus, they were overcome by… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When these men heard the tailor speaking thus, they were overcome by a great dread, and ran as if the wild huntsman were behind them, and none of them would venture anything further against him. Who acts: men, tailor, great dread, none. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Valiant
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 143

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When these men heard the tailor speaking thus, they were overcome by a great dread, and ran as if the wild huntsman were behind them, and none of them would venture anything further against him.

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**Who acts:** men, tailor, great dread, none · **What happens:** hear, speak, overcome, run, venture · **To what, where:** tailor, servants, anything · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (men, tailor, great dread, none), 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:pg2591:19:143
# text = When these men heard the tailor speaking thus, they were overcome by a great dread, and ran as if the wild huntsman were behind them, and none of them would venture anything further against him.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	tailor	tailor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	speaking	speak	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	overcome	overcome	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	dread	dread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
20	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
21	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	huntsman	huntsman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
25	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
30	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	34	nsubj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nmod	_	_
33	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	venture	venture	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
35	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	34	obj	_	_
36	further	further	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
37	against	against	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | this men | the tailor |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer tailor=Stimulus |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | gerund | the tailor *not said here* |  |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **overcome** | past · passive | a great dread | servants *= servant* |  |  |  |  | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot subject=Theme |
| 4 | **run** | past | this men *not said here* |  |  |  |  | behind huntsmen *= huntsman* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind they=Trajectory |
| 5 | **venture** | would | none | anything |  |  |  | against tailor; further *property* | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent anything=Topic |

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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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