Grimms' Fairy Tales, Little Red-cap [little Red Riding Hood], sentence 49

Then just as he was going to fire at him, it occurred to him that the wolf might have devoured the grandmother, and that she might still be saved, so he did not fire, but took a pair of scissors, and began to cut open the stomach of the sleeping wolf.

Who acts: wolf, fire · What happens: go, occur, devour, save, do, take · To what, where: fire, wolf, grandmother, pair, stomach

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, fire), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 going	advmod
2	just	just	ADV	_	6 going	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 going	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 going	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 going	aux
6	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 occurred	advcl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 fire	mark
8	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 going	xcomp
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 going	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 going	punct
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 occurred	nsubj
13	occurred	occur	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 occurred	obl
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 devoured	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 wolf	det
18	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 devoured	nsubj:pass
19	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 devoured	aux
20	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 devoured	aux
21	devoured	devour	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 occurred	advcl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 grandmother	det
23	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 devoured	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 saved	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 saved	cc
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 saved	mark
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 saved	nsubj
28	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 saved	aux
29	still	still	ADV	_	31 saved	advmod
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 saved	aux:pass
31	saved	save	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 devoured	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 did	punct
33	so	so	ADV	_	35 did	advmod
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 did	nsubj
35	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 occurred	conj
36	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 fire	advmod
37	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 did	obj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 took	punct
39	but	but	CCONJ	_	40 took	cc
40	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 occurred	parataxis
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 pair	det
42	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 took	obj
43	of	of	ADP	_	44 scissors	case
44	scissors	scissors	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 pair	nmod
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 began	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 began	cc
47	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 took	conj
48	to	to	PART	_	49 cut	mark
49	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 began	xcomp
50	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 cut	xcomp
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 stomach	det
52	stomach	stomach	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 open	obj
53	of	of	ADP	_	56 wolf	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 wolf	det
55	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 wolf	compound
56	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 stomach	nmod
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 occurred	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · progressive	wolf	fire		then	at huntsman	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at he=Location
2	occur	past	fire		wolf			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	devour	might · perfect · passive		the wolf				tree rules
4	save	might · passive		grandmother		still		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	do	past	wolf	fire				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Eventuality
6	take	past		a pair of scissors				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pair=Theme
7	begin	past						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
8	cut	to-infinitive						tree rules
9	open	infinitive		the stomach of the sleeping wolf				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location stomach=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: «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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