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

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	10 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	10 ran	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tailor	det
8	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 perceived	obj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 ran	nsubj
10	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 ran	obl
13	with	with	SCONJ	_	14 foaming	mark
14	foaming	foam	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 ran	advcl
15	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 foaming	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 gleaming	cc
17	gleaming	gleam	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 foaming	conj
18	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 gleaming	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 tried	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 tried	cc
21	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 ran	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 knock	mark
23	knock	knock	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 tried	xcomp
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 knock	obj
25	down	down	ADP	_	23 knock	compound:prt
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 ran	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 ran	cc
28	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 friend	nmod:poss
29	alert	alert	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 friend	amod
30	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 friend	amod
31	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 ran	nsubj
32	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 ran	conj
33	into	into	ADP	_	35 chapel	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 chapel	det
35	chapel	chapel	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 ran	obl
36	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 stood	nsubj
37	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 chapel	acl:relcl
38	near	near	ADV	_	37 stood	advmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 got	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 got	cc
41	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 ran	conj
42	out	out	ADP	_	45 window	case
43	of	of	ADP	_	45 window	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 window	det
45	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 got	obl
46	again	again	ADV	_	41 got	advmod
47	with	with	ADP	_	49 jump	case
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 jump	det
49	jump	jump	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 got	obl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	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.

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