Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 113

As soon as the boar perceived the Tailor, it ran at him with gaping mouth and glistening teeth, and tried to throw him down on the ground; but our flying hero sprang into a little chapel which stood near, and out again at a window, on the other side, in a moment.

Who acts: boar, flying hero, little chapel · What happens: perceive, run, gape, glisten, try, throw down · To what, where: Tailor, mouth, teeth, ground, little chapel

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 (boar, flying hero, little 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 ran	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 perceived	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 boar	det
5	boar	boar	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 perceived	nsubj
6	perceived	perceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 ran	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Tailor	det
8	Tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 perceived	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 perceived	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 ran	nsubj
11	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 ran	obl
14	with	with	SCONJ	_	15 gaping	mark
15	gaping	gape	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 ran	advcl
16	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 gaping	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 glistening	cc
18	glistening	glisten	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 gaping	conj
19	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 glistening	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 tried	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 tried	cc
22	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 ran	conj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 throw	mark
24	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 tried	xcomp
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 throw	obj
26	down	down	ADP	_	24 throw	compound:prt
27	on	on	ADP	_	29 ground	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 ground	det
29	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 throw	obl
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 sprang	punct
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	35 sprang	cc
32	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 hero	nmod:poss
33	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	34 hero	amod
34	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 sprang	nsubj
35	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 ran	conj
36	into	into	ADP	_	39 chapel	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 chapel	det
38	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 chapel	amod
39	chapel	chapel	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 sprang	obl
40	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	41 stood	nsubj
41	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 chapel	acl:relcl
42	near	near	ADV	_	41 stood	advmod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 out	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 out	cc
45	out	out	ADV	_	35 sprang	parataxis
46	again	again	ADV	_	45 out	advmod
47	at	at	ADP	_	49 window	case
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 window	det
49	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 sprang	obl
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 side	punct
51	on	on	ADP	_	54 side	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 side	det
53	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 side	amod
54	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 sprang	obl
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 moment	punct
56	in	in	ADP	_	58 moment	case
57	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	58 moment	det
58	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 sprang	obl
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, 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	gape	gerund	boar not said here	mouth				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouth=Theme
4	glisten	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	throw down not said to happen	to-infinitive	boar not said here	Tailor	the ground			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent he=Theme on ground=Destination
7	fly	gerund						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	spring	past	our flying hero		a little chapel	moment	at a window; on the other side	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into chapel=Destination
9	stand	past	a little chapel				near property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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