Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids, sentence 21

Then he put his paws in through the window and when the kids saw that they were white, they believed that all he said was true, and opened the door.

Who acts: wretch, kids, all · What happens: put, see, be, believe, say, open · To what, where: paws, window, door · 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 (wretch, kids, all), 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 put	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 put	nsubj
3	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 paws	nmod:poss
5	paws	paw	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 put	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 window	case
7	through	through	ADP	_	9 window	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 window	det
9	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 put	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 believed	cc
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 saw	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 kids	det
13	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 saw	nsubj
14	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 believed	advcl
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 white	mark
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 white	nsubj
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 white	cop
18	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 saw	ccomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 saw	punct
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 believed	nsubj
21	believed	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 put	conj
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 true	mark
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 true	nsubj
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 said	nsubj
25	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 all	acl:relcl
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 true	cop
27	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 believed	advcl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 opened	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 opened	cc
30	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 put	conj
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 door	det
32	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 opened	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	past	wretch	wretch's paws	the window	then		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent paw=Theme in window=Destination
2	see	past	the kids					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	past	kids = kid				white property	tree rules
4	believe	past	kids = kid					vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
5	say speech: assert	past	wretch					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	is	past	all				true property	tree rules
7	open	past	wretch not said here	the door				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme

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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