Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 83
A hungry wolf sprang out, and swallowed up the whole stomach, with Tom in it, at one gulp, and ran away.
Who acts: hungry wolf · What happens: spring out, swallow up, run away · To what, where: whole stomach
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Tom Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hungry 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 wolf | det |
| 2 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 wolf | amod |
| 3 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sprang | nsubj |
| 4 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 sprang | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 swallowed | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 swallowed | cc |
| 8 | swallowed | swallow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 sprang | parataxis |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 swallowed | compound:prt |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 stomach | det |
| 11 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 stomach | amod |
| 12 | stomach | stomach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 swallowed | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Tom | punct |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 Tom | case |
| 15 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 swallowed | obl:agent |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 it | case |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 Tom | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 gulp | punct |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 gulp | case |
| 20 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 gulp | nummod |
| 21 | gulp | gulp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 swallowed | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 ran | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 ran | cc |
| 24 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sprang | conj |
| 25 | away | away | ADV | _ | 24 ran | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sprang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spring out | past | a hungry wolf | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | swallow up | participle | the whole stomach | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stomach=Patient | |||||
| 3 | run away | past | a hungry wolf not said here | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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