Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 166
Thumbling had reckoned on this, and now began to make a violent noise in the wolfs body, and raged and screamed as loudly as he could. "
What happens: thumbl, reckon, begin, make, rage, scream · To what, where: this, violent noise, wolfs body
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: 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 | Thumbling | thumbl | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 reckoned | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 reckoned | aux |
| 3 | reckoned | reckon | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 this | case |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 reckoned | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 began | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 began | cc |
| 8 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 began | advmod |
| 9 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 reckoned | parataxis |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 make | mark |
| 11 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 began | xcomp |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 noise | det |
| 13 | violent | violent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 noise | amod |
| 14 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 make | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 body | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 body | det |
| 17 | wolfs | wolfs | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 body | amod |
| 18 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 make | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 raged | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 raged | cc |
| 21 | raged | rage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 began | conj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 screamed | cc |
| 23 | screamed | scream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 raged | conj |
| 24 | as | as | ADV | _ | 25 loudly | advmod |
| 25 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 23 screamed | advmod |
| 26 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 28 could | mark |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 could | nsubj |
| 28 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 screamed | advcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 reckoned | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 reckoned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thumbl | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | reckon | past · perfect · passive | this | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | begin | past | now | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | make | to-infinitive | a violent noise | the wolfs body | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset noise=Product | ||||
| 5 | rage | past | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | scream speech: express | past | loudly property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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