Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little Red Cap, sentence 25

So the Wolf lifted the latch, and the door flew open; and without a word, he jumped on to the bed, and gobbled up the poor old lady.

Who acts: Wolf, door · What happens: lift, fly, jump on, gobble up · To what, where: latch, bed, poor old lady

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, door), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 lifted	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Wolf	det
3	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 lifted	nsubj
4	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 latch	det
6	latch	latch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lifted	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 flew	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 flew	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 door	det
10	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 flew	nsubj
11	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lifted	conj
12	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 flew	xcomp
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 jumped	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 jumped	cc
15	without	without	ADP	_	17 word	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 word	det
17	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 jumped	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 word	punct
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 jumped	nsubj
20	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lifted	conj
21	on	on	ADP	_	20 jumped	compound:prt
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 bed	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 bed	det
24	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 jumped	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 gobbled	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 gobbled	cc
27	gobbled	gobble	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 jumped	conj
28	up	up	ADP	_	27 gobbled	compound:prt
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 lady	det
30	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 lady	amod
31	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 lady	amod
32	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 gobbled	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lifted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lift	past	the Wolf	the latch			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent latch=Theme
2	fly	past	the door			open property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	jump on	past	door		the bed	without a word	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to bed=Destination
4	gobble up	participle	door not said here	the poor old lady			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent lady=Theme

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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