Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 98

Then he aimed a great blow, and struck the wolf on the head, and killed him on the spot! and when he was dead they cut open his body, and set Tommy free.

Who acts: father, children · What happens: aim, strike, kill, be, cut · To what, where: great blow, wolf, father, spot, open body

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 (father, children), 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	3 aimed	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 aimed	nsubj
3	aimed	aim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 blow	det
5	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 blow	amod
6	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 aimed	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 struck	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 struck	cc
9	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 aimed	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 wolf	det
11	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 struck	obj
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 head	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 head	det
14	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 struck	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 killed	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 killed	cc
17	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 aimed	conj
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 killed	obj
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 spot	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 spot	det
21	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 killed	obl
22	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 aimed	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 dead	cc
24	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	27 dead	advmod
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 dead	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 dead	cop
27	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 aimed	conj
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 cut	nsubj
29	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 dead	parataxis
30	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 body	amod
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 body	nmod:poss
32	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 cut	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 free	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 free	cc
35	set	set	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 Tommy	amod
36	Tommy	Tommy	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 free	compound
37	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 aimed	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 aimed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	aim	past	father	a great blow		then		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot blow=Theme
2	strike	past	father not said here	the wolf			on the head	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent wolf=Instrument on head=Patient
3	kill	past	father not said here	father	the spot			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	is	past	father				dead property	tree rules
5	cut	past	children = child	father's open body				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset body=Product

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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