--- title: They ran up and saw with horror that the eagle had seized their old… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: They ran up and saw with horror that the eagle had seized their old acquaintance the dwarf, and was going to carry him off. Who acts: needles, horror. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Snow-white and Rose-red, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/60/80/) [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/) / [Grimms' Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/) / [Snow-white and Rose-red](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/60/) / 80 # Grimms' Fairy Tales, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 80 They ran up and saw with horror that the eagle had seized their old acquaintance the dwarf, and was going to carry him off. **Who acts:** needles, horror · **What happens:** run up, see, seize, go, carry off, acquaint · **To what, where:** eagle This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (needles, horror), 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:pg2591:60:80 # text = They ran up and saw with horror that the eagle had seized their old acquaintance the dwarf, and was going to carry him off. 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 up up ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 horror horror NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 8 that that SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 eagle eagle NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj:pass _ _ 11 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 seized seize VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 acl:relcl _ _ 13 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 14 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 acquaintance acquaintance NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 dwarf dwarf NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl:unmarked _ 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 aux _ _ 21 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 carry carry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 xcomp _ _ 24 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 off off ADP RP _ 23 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 26 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **run up** | past | needles *= needle* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **see** | past | needles *= needle* *not said here* | | | | | with horror | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **seize** | past · perfect · passive | horror *not said here* | the eagle | | | | the dwarf *obl:unmarked* | tree rules | | 4 | **go** | past · progressive | needles *= needle* *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **carry off** | to-infinitive | needles *= needle* *not said here* | eagle | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 6 | **acquaint** | | needles *= needle* | | | | | | nom acquaintance «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | 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:** «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. - ← previous: [sentence 79](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/60/79/) - next →: [sentence 81](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/60/81/) - ↑ back to [Snow-white and Rose-red](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/60/)