Grimms' Fairy Tales, Little Red-cap [little Red Riding Hood], sentence 43
When the wolf had appeased his appetite, he lay down again in the bed, fell asleep and began to snore very loud.
Who acts: wolf · What happens: appease, lie down, fall, begin, snore · To what, where: wolf, bed
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Little Red-cap [little Red Riding Hood]. 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 | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 appeased | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wolf | det |
| 3 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 appeased | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 appeased | aux |
| 5 | appeased | appease | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 appetite | nmod:poss |
| 7 | appetite | appetite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 appeased | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 lay | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 lay | nsubj |
| 10 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 appeased | conj |
| 11 | down | down | ADV | _ | 10 lay | advmod |
| 12 | again | again | ADV | _ | 10 lay | advmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 bed | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 bed | det |
| 15 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lay | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 fell | punct |
| 17 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 lay | parataxis |
| 18 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 fell | xcomp |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 began | cc |
| 20 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 fell | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 snore | mark |
| 22 | snore | snore | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 began | xcomp |
| 23 | very | very | ADV | _ | 24 loud | advmod |
| 24 | loud | loud | ADV | _ | 22 snore | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 appeased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appease | past · perfect · passive | the wolf | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer appetite=Result | |||||
| 2 | lie down | past | wolf | the bed | again | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location | ||
| 3 | fall | past | asleep property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | begin | past | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 5 | snore | to-infinitive | loud property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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