Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 159
A hungry wolf ran thither, and swallowed the whole stomach at one gulp.
Who acts: hungry wolf · What happens: run, swallow · To what, where: whole stomach, one gulp
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Water of Life. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hungry 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 wolf | det |
| 2 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 wolf | amod |
| 3 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ran | nsubj |
| 4 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | thither | thither | ADV | _ | 4 ran | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 swallowed | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 swallowed | cc |
| 8 | swallowed | swallow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ran | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 stomach | det |
| 10 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 stomach | amod |
| 11 | stomach | stomach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 swallowed | obj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 gulp | case |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 gulp | nummod |
| 14 | gulp | gulp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 swallowed | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | a hungry wolf | thither property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | swallow | past | a hungry wolf not said here | the whole stomach | one gulp | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stomach=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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