Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 114

The boar ran after him, but he, skipping around, closed the door behind it, and there the furious beast was caught, for it was much too unwieldy and heavy to jump out of the window.

Who acts: boar, Tailor · What happens: run, skip around, close, catch, be, jump out · To what, where: door, boar, furious beast, window

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, Tailor), 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 boar	det
2	boar	boar	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ran	nsubj
3	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	after	after	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ran	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 skipping	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 skipping	cc
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 skipping	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 skipping	punct
10	skipping	skip	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 ran	advcl
11	around	around	ADV	_	10 skipping	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 closed	punct
13	closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 skipping	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 door	det
15	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 closed	obj
16	behind	behind	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 closed	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 caught	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 caught	cc
20	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	25 caught	expl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 beast	det
22	furious	furious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 beast	amod
23	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 caught	nsubj:pass
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 caught	aux:pass
25	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 ran	parataxis
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 unwieldy	punct
27	for	for	SCONJ	_	32 unwieldy	mark
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 unwieldy	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 unwieldy	cop
30	much	much	ADV	_	32 unwieldy	advmod
31	too	too	ADV	_	32 unwieldy	advmod
32	unwieldy	unwieldy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 caught	parataxis
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 heavy	cc
34	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 unwieldy	conj
35	to	to	PART	_	36 jump	mark
36	jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 heavy	xcomp
37	out	out	ADP	_	40 window	case
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 window	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 window	det
40	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 jump	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	past	the boar			after Tailor		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	skip around	gerund	Tailor				around property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	close	participle	Tailor not said here	the door	boar			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient
4	catch	past · passive		the furious beast	there			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	is	past	boar				unwieldy property	tree rules
6	be		boar not said here					tree rules
7	jump out	to-infinitive	boar not said here	the window				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme window=Trajectory

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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