Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 112

The huntsmen, however, he left behind, to their great joy, for this wild boar had already so often hunted them, that they saw no fun in now hunting it.

Who acts: huntsmen, wild boar · What happens: leave behind, have, hunt, see, joy · To what, where: great joy, huntsmen, fun, boar

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» 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 (huntsmen, wild boar), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 huntsmen	det
2	huntsmen	huntsman	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 left	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 huntsmen	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	7 left	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 however	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 left	nsubj
7	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	behind	behind	ADV	_	7 left	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 joy	punct
10	to	to	ADP	_	13 joy	case
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 joy	nmod:poss
12	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 joy	amod
13	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 left	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 had	punct
15	for	for	SCONJ	_	19 had	mark
16	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 boar	det
17	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 boar	amod
18	boar	boar	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 had	nsubj
19	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 left	conj
20	already	already	ADV	_	19 had	advmod
21	so	so	ADV	_	23 hunted	advmod
22	often	often	ADV	_	23 hunted	advmod
23	hunted	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 had	advcl
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 hunted	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 saw	punct
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 saw	mark
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 saw	nsubj
28	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 hunted	conj
29	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	30 fun	det
30	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 saw	obj
31	in	in	SCONJ	_	33 hunting	mark
32	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	33 hunting	advmod
33	hunting	hunt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 saw	advcl
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 hunting	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 left	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave behind	past	the huntsmen		huntsmen's great joy		behind, however property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to joy=Initial_Location
2	have	past	this wild boar					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	hunt	past	this wild boar not said here	huntsmen = huntsman			often property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
4	see	past	huntsmen = huntsman	no fun				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fun=Stimulus
5	hunt	gerund	huntsmen = huntsman not said here	boar		now		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
6	joy		huntsmen = huntsman					nom joy «feeling 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: «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (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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