Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 129

The boar ran after him, but the tailor ran round outside and shut the door behind it, and then the raging beast, which was much too heavy and awkward to leap out of the window, was caught.

Who acts: boar, tailor, raging beast · What happens: run, shut, rage, be, leap out, catch · To what, where: door, boar, window

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» 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, raging beast), 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 ran	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 ran	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 tailor	det
9	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ran	nsubj
10	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ran	conj
11	round	round	ADV	_	10 ran	advmod
12	outside	outside	ADV	_	10 ran	advmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 shut	cc
14	shut	shut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 ran	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 door	det
16	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 shut	obj
17	behind	behind	ADP	_	18 it	case
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 shut	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 beast	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 beast	cc
21	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 beast	advmod
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 beast	det
23	raging	rage	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 beast	amod
24	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ran	parataxis
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 heavy	punct
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 heavy	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 heavy	cop
28	much	much	ADV	_	30 heavy	advmod
29	too	too	ADV	_	30 heavy	advmod
30	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 beast	parataxis
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 awkward	cc
32	awkward	awkward	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 heavy	conj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 leap	mark
34	leap	leap	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 awkward	xcomp
35	out	out	ADP	_	38 window	case
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 window	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 window	det
38	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 leap	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 caught	punct
40	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 caught	aux:pass
41	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 ran	conj
42	.	.	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	run	past	the tailor				outside, round property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	shut	infinitive	the tailor not said here	the door	boar			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent door=Patient
4	rage	gerund						vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	past	the raging beast				heavy property	tree rules
6	be		the raging beast not said here					tree rules
7	leap out	to-infinitive	the raging beast not said here	the window				vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme window=Trajectory
8	catch	past · passive	the boar not said here					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»

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.

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