Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little Red Cap, sentence 52

At last he stretched his neck too far over, so that he lost his balance, and fell down from the roof, right into the great trough below, and there he was drowned.

Who acts: Wolf · What happens: stretch, lose, fall down, drown, balance · To what, where: neck, last, balance, roof, Wolf

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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stretched	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stretched	nsubj
4	stretched	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 neck	nmod:poss
6	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stretched	obj
7	too	too	ADV	_	8 far	advmod
8	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 over	advmod
9	over	over	ADV	_	4 stretched	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 lost	punct
11	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	14 lost	mark
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 so	fixed
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 lost	nsubj
14	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stretched	conj
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 balance	nmod:poss
16	balance	balance	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lost	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 fell	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 fell	cc
19	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stretched	conj
20	down	down	ADV	_	19 fell	advmod
21	from	from	ADP	_	23 roof	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 roof	det
23	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fell	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 trough	punct
25	right	right	ADV	_	29 trough	advmod
26	into	into	ADP	_	29 trough	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 trough	det
28	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 trough	amod
29	trough	trough	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fell	obl
30	below	below	ADV	_	29 trough	advmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 drowned	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 drowned	cc
33	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	36 drowned	expl
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 drowned	nsubj:pass
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 drowned	aux:pass
36	drowned	drown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 stretched	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 stretched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stretch	past	Wolf	Wolf's neck	last	over property	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent neck=Patient
2	lose	past	Wolf	Wolf's balance			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent balance=Eventuality
3	fall down	past	Wolf not said here		the roof	into the great trough; down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from roof=Initial_Location into trough=Destination
4	drown	past · passive		Wolf	there		vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
5	balance		Wolf				nom balance «state intransitive»: poss=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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