Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little Red Cap, sentence 51
Then the Wolf sniffed the smell of the meat, and his mouth watered, and he wished very much to taste.
Who acts: Wolf, mouth, meat · What happens: sniff, water, wish, taste, smell · To what, where: smell
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, mouth, meat), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 sniffed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Wolf | det |
| 3 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sniffed | nsubj |
| 4 | sniffed | sniff | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 smell | det |
| 6 | smell | smell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sniffed | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 meat | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 meat | det |
| 9 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 smell | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 watered | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 watered | cc |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 13 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 watered | nsubj |
| 14 | watered | water | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sniffed | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 wished | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 wished | cc |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 wished | nsubj |
| 18 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sniffed | conj |
| 19 | very | very | ADV | _ | 20 much | advmod |
| 20 | much | much | ADV | _ | 18 wished | advmod |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 taste | mark |
| 22 | taste | taste | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 wished | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sniffed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sniff | past | the Wolf | the smell of the meat | then | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smell=Theme | |||
| 2 | water | past | Wolf's mouth | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | wish | past | mouth | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | taste not said to happen | to-infinitive | mouth not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | smell | the meat | nom smell «cognition intransitive»: of=agent |
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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