Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 161

Perhaps," thought he, "the wolf will listen to what I have got to say," and he called to him from out of his stomach, "Dear wolf, I know of a magnificent feast for you."

Who acts: wolf, I · What happens: think, listen, get, say, call, know · To what, where: wolf, pastor, stomach · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (wolf, I), 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	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	4 thought	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Perhaps	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 thought	punct
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thought	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 listen	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 listen	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wolf	det
9	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 listen	nsubj
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 listen	aux
11	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 thought	ccomp
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 what	case
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 listen	obl
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 got	nsubj
15	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 got	aux
16	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 what	acl:relcl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 say	mark
18	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 got	xcomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 listen	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 listen	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 called	cc
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 called	nsubj
23	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thought	conj
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 him	case
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 called	obl
26	from	from	ADP	_	30 stomach	case
27	out	out	ADP	_	30 stomach	case
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 stomach	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 stomach	nmod:poss
30	stomach	stomach	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 called	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 wolf	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	34 wolf	punct
33	Dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 wolf	amod
34	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 stomach	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 know	punct
36	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 know	nsubj
37	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 thought	parataxis
38	of	of	ADP	_	41 feast	case
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 feast	det
40	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 feast	amod
41	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 know	obl
42	for	for	ADP	_	43 you	case
43	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	37 know	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 thought	punct
45	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other in a quote	past		wolf			perhaps property	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Attribute clause=Theme
2	listen	future	the wolf					vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to what=Theme
3	get	present · perfect	I					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	I not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	call in a quote	past	wolf		pastor	wolf's stomach and Dear wolf		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
6	know	present	I				of a magnificent feast; for you	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of feast=Stimulus

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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