Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little Red Cap, sentence 21
The Wolf, however, ran straight to the house of the old grandmother, and knocked at the door.
Who acts: Wolf · What happens: run, knock · To what, where: house
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Little Red Cap. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wolf), 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 Wolf | det |
| 2 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wolf | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 6 ran | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 however | punct |
| 6 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 10 house | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 house | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 house | det |
| 10 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ran | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 grandmother | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 grandmother | det |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 grandmother | amod |
| 14 | grandmother | grandmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 house | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 knocked | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 knocked | cc |
| 17 | knocked | knock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 ran | conj |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 door | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 door | det |
| 20 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 knocked | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | the Wolf | the house of the old grandmother | however property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme house=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | knock | past | the Wolf not said here | at the door | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient |
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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