Grimms' Fairy Tales, Little Red-cap [little Red Riding Hood], sentence 63

Then the smell of the sausages reached the wolf, and he sniffed and peeped down, and at last stretched out his neck so far that he could no longer keep his footing and began to slip, and slipped down from the roof straight into the great trough, and was drowned.

Who acts: smell, sausages · What happens: reach, sniff, peep down, stretch out, keep, begin · To what, where: wolf, neck, footing

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 (smell, sausages), 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	7 reached	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 smell	det
3	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 reached	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 sausages	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sausages	det
6	sausages	sausage	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 smell	nmod
7	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wolf	det
9	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 reached	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sniffed	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 sniffed	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 sniffed	nsubj
13	sniffed	sniff	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 reached	parataxis
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 peeped	cc
15	peeped	peep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 sniffed	conj
16	down	down	ADP	_	15 peeped	compound:prt
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 stretched	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 stretched	cc
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 last	case
20	last	last	ADV	_	21 stretched	obl
21	stretched	stretch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 sniffed	conj
22	out	out	ADP	_	21 stretched	compound:prt
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 neck	nmod:poss
24	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 stretched	obj
25	so	so	ADV	_	26 far	advmod
26	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	32 keep	advmod
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 keep	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 keep	nsubj
29	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 keep	aux
30	no	no	ADV	_	31 longer	advmod
31	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	32 keep	advmod
32	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 stretched	advcl
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 footing	nmod:poss
34	footing	footing	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 keep	obj
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 began	cc
36	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 keep	conj
37	to	to	PART	_	38 slip	mark
38	slip	slip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 began	xcomp
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 slipped	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 slipped	cc
41	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 reached	parataxis
42	down	down	ADV	_	41 slipped	advmod
43	from	from	ADP	_	45 roof	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 roof	det
45	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 slipped	obl
46	straight	straight	ADV	_	50 trough	advmod
47	into	into	ADP	_	50 trough	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 trough	det
49	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 trough	amod
50	trough	trough	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 slipped	obl
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 drowned	punct
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 drowned	cc
53	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 drowned	aux:pass
54	drowned	drown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	41 slipped	conj
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 reached	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	reach	past	the smell of the sausages	the wolf	then		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent wolf=Theme
2	sniff	past	smell				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	peep down	past	smell not said here				vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	stretch out	participle	smell not said here	smell's neck			vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent neck=Patient
5	keep	could	smell	smell's footing		far, long property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent footing=Theme
6	begin	past	smell not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	slip	to-infinitive	smell not said here				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
8	slip down	past				into the great trough; from the roof; down property	vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from roof=Co-Patient
9	drown	past · passive					vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»
10	smell		the sausages				nom smell «cognition intransitive»: of=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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