Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 165
When he had eaten his fill, he wanted to go out again, but he had become so big that he could not go out by the same way.
Who acts: wolf · What happens: eat, want, go out, become, not go out · To what, where: fill
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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 eaten | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 eaten | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 eaten | aux |
| 4 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 wanted | advcl |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 fill | nmod:poss |
| 6 | fill | fill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 eaten | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 eaten | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 wanted | nsubj |
| 9 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 go | mark |
| 11 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 wanted | xcomp |
| 12 | out | out | ADV | _ | 11 go | advmod |
| 13 | again | again | ADV | _ | 11 go | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 become | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 become | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 become | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 become | aux |
| 18 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 wanted | conj |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 big | advmod |
| 20 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 become | xcomp |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 go | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 go | nsubj |
| 23 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 go | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 go | advmod |
| 25 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 big | advcl |
| 26 | out | out | ADV | _ | 25 go | advmod |
| 27 | by | by | ADP | _ | 30 way | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 way | det |
| 29 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 way | amod |
| 30 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 go | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 wanted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | past · perfect | wolf | wolf's fill | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fill=Patient | ||||
| 2 | want | past | wolf | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | go out not said to happen | to-infinitive | wolf not said here | again | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | become | past · perfect | wolf | big property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | not go out | could | wolf | by the same way; out property | vn interact-36.6 «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.
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