Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids, sentence 14
Then the wolf ran to a baker and said: ‘I have hurt my feet, rub some dough over them for me.’
Who acts: wolf, I · What happens: run, say, hurt, rub · To what, where: feet, dough · Speech: someone speaks here
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, I), 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 ran | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wolf | det |
| 3 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ran | nsubj |
| 4 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 baker | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 baker | det |
| 7 | baker | baker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ran | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 said | cc |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ran | conj |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 hurt | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 hurt | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 hurt | nsubj |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 hurt | aux |
| 14 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 said | ccomp |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 feet | nmod:poss |
| 16 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 hurt | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 rub | punct |
| 18 | rub | rub | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 ran | conj |
| 19 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 dough | det |
| 20 | dough | dough | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rub | obj |
| 21 | over | over | ADP | _ | 22 them | case |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 rub | obl |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 me | case |
| 24 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 rub | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ran | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | the wolf | then | to a baker result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to baker=Result | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the wolf not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | hurt | present · perfect | I | my feet | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer foot=Patient | ||||
| 4 | rub | present | the wolf not said here | some dough | over feet = foot; for me | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent dough=Theme over they=Destination |
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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