Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 88

The wolf did not want to be asked twice; so that very night he went to the house and crawled through the drain into the kitchen, and then into the pantry, and ate and drank there to his heart’s content.

Who acts: wolf, pig · What happens: not want, ask, go, crawl, eat, drink · To what, where: house, drain

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 (wolf, pig), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wolf	det
2	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 want	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 want	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 want	advmod
5	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	8 asked	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 asked	aux:pass
8	asked	ask	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 want	xcomp
9	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	8 asked	advmod
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 went	punct
11	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	16 went	mark
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 so	fixed
13	very	very	ADV	_	14 night	advmod
14	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 went	obl:unmarked
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 went	nsubj
16	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 want	parataxis
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 house	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 house	det
19	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 went	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 crawled	cc
21	crawled	crawl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 went	conj
22	through	through	ADP	_	24 drain	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 drain	det
24	drain	drain	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 crawled	obl
25	into	into	ADP	_	27 kitchen	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 kitchen	det
27	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 crawled	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 pantry	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 pantry	cc
30	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	33 pantry	advmod
31	into	into	ADP	_	33 pantry	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 pantry	det
33	pantry	pantry	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 crawled	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 ate	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 ate	cc
36	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 went	conj
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 drank	cc
38	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 ate	conj
39	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	38 drank	advmod
40	to	to	ADP	_	44 content	case
41	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 heart	nmod:poss
42	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 content	nmod:poss
43	’s	's	PART	_	42 heart	case
44	content	content	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 drank	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 want	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	not want	past · do-support	the wolf				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	ask speech: ask not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive	the wolf not said here			twice property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»
3	go	past	pig	the house	night		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location
4	crawl	past	pig not said here	the drain		into the kitchen; into the pantry	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into kitchen=Destination
5	eat	past	pig not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	drink	past	pig not said here	there		to pig's heart's content	vn eat-39.1-1 «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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