Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 164

The wolf did not require to be told this twice, squeezed himself in at night through the sink, and ate to his heart's content in the larder.

Who acts: wolf · What happens: not require, tell, squeeze in, eat · To what, where: this, wolf, sink, larder · 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), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wolf	det
2	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 require	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 require	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 require	advmod
5	require	require	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	8 told	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 told	aux:pass
8	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 require	xcomp
9	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 told	obj
10	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	8 told	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 squeezed	punct
12	squeezed	squeeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 require	parataxis
13	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 squeezed	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	12 squeezed	compound:prt
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 night	case
16	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 squeezed	obl
17	through	through	ADP	_	19 sink	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 sink	det
19	sink	sink	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 squeezed	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 ate	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 ate	cc
22	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 squeezed	conj
23	to	to	ADP	_	27 content	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 heart	nmod:poss
25	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 content	nmod:poss
26	's	's	PART	_	25 heart	case
27	content	content	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 ate	obl
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 larder	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 larder	det
30	larder	larder	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 ate	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 require	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not require	past · do-support	the wolf					vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition
2	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive · passive	the wolf not said here	this			twice property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: this=Recipient
3	squeeze in	past		wolf	the sink	night		vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent himself=Theme through sink=Trajectory
4	eat	past			the larder		to wolf's heart's content	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/17/164/