--- title: As soon as the boar perceived the tailor it ran at him with foaming… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: As soon as the boar perceived the tailor it ran at him with foaming mouth and gleaming teeth, and tried to knock him down; but our alert little friend ran into a chapel that stood near, and got out of the window again with a jump. Who acts: boar, alert little friend, chapel. A sentence of «The Blue --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/42/120/) [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/) / [The Blue Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/) / [The Brave Little Tailor](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/42/) / 120 # The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 120 As soon as the boar perceived the tailor it ran at him with foaming mouth and gleaming teeth, and tried to knock him down; but our alert little friend ran into a chapel that stood near, and got out of the window again with a jump. **Who acts:** boar, alert little friend, chapel · **What happens:** perceive, run, foam, gleam, try, knock down · **To what, where:** tailor, mouth, teeth, chapel, window This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brave 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, alert little friend, chapel), 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:pg503:42:120 # text = As soon as the boar perceived the tailor it ran at him with foaming mouth and gleaming teeth, and tried to knock him down; but our alert little friend ran into a chapel that stood near, and got out of the window again with a jump. 1 As as ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 10 advmod _ _ 3 as as SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 boar boar NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 perceived perceive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 tailor tailor NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 at at ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obl _ _ 13 with with SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 14 foaming foam VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ _ 15 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 gleaming gleam VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 conj _ _ 18 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 tried try VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 knock knock VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 xcomp _ _ 24 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 down down ADP RP _ 23 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ; ; PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 27 but but CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 28 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 29 alert alert ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 30 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 32 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 33 into into ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 chapel chapel NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 36 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 37 nsubj _ _ 37 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 acl:relcl _ _ 38 near near ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 41 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 42 out out ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 43 of of ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 window window NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ _ 46 again again ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 47 with with ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 48 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 49 jump jump NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | 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 | | | | | at tailor; soon *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at 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 | **gleam** | gerund | boar *not said here* | teeth | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tooth=Theme | | 5 | **try** | past | boar *not said here* | | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 6 | **knock down** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | boar *not said here* | tailor | | | | | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent he=Patient | | 7 | **run** | past | our alert little friend | | | | | into a chapel *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into chapel=Result | | 8 | **stand** | past | a chapel | | | | | near *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **get out** | past | boar *not said here* | the window | | | again | with a jump | tree rules | 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:** «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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 119](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/42/119/) - next →: [sentence 121](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/42/121/) - ↑ back to [The Brave Little Tailor](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/42/)