Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 175

After that he raised his arm, and struck the wolf such a blow on his head that he fell down dead, and then they got knives and scissors and cut his body open, and drew the little fellow forth. "

Who acts: Father, children · What happens: raise, strike, fall down, get, cut, draw · To what, where: arm, wolf, head, knives, body, little fellow

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 (Father, children), 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	After	after	ADP	_	2 that	case
2	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 raised	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 raised	nsubj
4	raised	raise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 arm	nmod:poss
6	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 raised	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 struck	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 struck	cc
9	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 raised	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 wolf	det
11	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 struck	obj
12	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	14 blow	det:predet
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 blow	det
14	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 struck	obj
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 head	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 head	nmod:poss
17	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 struck	obl
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 fell	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 fell	nsubj
20	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 struck	advcl
21	down	down	ADV	_	20 fell	advmod
22	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 fell	xcomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 got	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 got	cc
25	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 got	advmod
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 got	nsubj
27	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 raised	conj
28	knives	knife	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 got	obj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 scissors	cc
30	scissors	scissors	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 knives	conj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 cut	cc
32	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 raised	conj
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 body	nmod:poss
34	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 cut	obj
35	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 cut	xcomp
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 drew	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 drew	cc
38	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 raised	parataxis
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 fellow	det
40	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 fellow	amod
41	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 drew	obj
42	forth	forth	ADV	_	38 drew	advmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 raised	punct
44	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 raised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	raise	past	Father	Father's arm		after that		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme
2	strike	past	Father not said here	the wolf	Father's head			vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent wolf=Patient blow=Result
3	fall down	past	Father				dead, down property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	get	past	children = child	knives and scissors		then		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer knife=Stimulus
5	cut	past	Father not said here	Father's body			open property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset body=Product
6	draw	past		the little fellow			forth property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fellow=Theme

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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