Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids, sentence 1

There was once upon a time an old goat who had seven little kids, and loved them with all the love of a mother for her children.

Who acts: old goat · What happens: be, have, love · To what, where: seven little kids, kids, mother

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old goat), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 was	advmod
4	upon	upon	ADP	_	6 time	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 time	det
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	obl
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 goat	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 goat	amod
9	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 time	appos
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 had	nsubj
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 goat	acl:relcl
12	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 kids	nummod
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 kids	amod
14	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 had	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 loved	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 loved	cc
17	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 loved	obj
19	with	with	ADP	_	22 love	case
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 love	det:predet
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 love	det
22	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 loved	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 mother	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 mother	det
25	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 love	nmod
26	for	for	ADP	_	28 children	case
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 children	nmod:poss
28	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 mother	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past			there	time	once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	past	a old goat	seven little kids				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kid=Patient
3	love	past		kids = kid			with all love of a mother for goat's children	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
4	love			a mother for goat's children				nom love «feeling transitive»: of=patient

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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