Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids, sentence 11
Then the wolf went away to a shopkeeper and bought himself a great lump of chalk, ate this and made his voice soft with it.
Who acts: wolf · What happens: go away, buy, eat, make · To what, where: shopkeeper, wolf, this, voice
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 (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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wolf | det |
| 3 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 shopkeeper | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 shopkeeper | det |
| 8 | shopkeeper | shopkeeper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 bought | cc |
| 10 | bought | buy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 11 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 bought | obj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 lump | det |
| 13 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 lump | amod |
| 14 | lump | lump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bought | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 chalk | case |
| 16 | chalk | chalk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lump | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 ate | punct |
| 18 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 19 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 ate | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 made | cc |
| 21 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 voice | nmod:poss |
| 23 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 made | obj |
| 24 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 made | xcomp |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 it | case |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 soft | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go away | past | the wolf | a shopkeeper | then | away property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to shopkeeper=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | buy | past | the wolf not said here | wolf | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent himself=Beneficiary lump=Theme | ||||
| 3 | eat | past | the wolf not said here | this | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Patient | ||||
| 4 | make | past | the wolf not said here | wolf's voice | soft property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset voice=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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