Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids, sentence 25

But the wolf found them all, and used no great ceremony; one after the other he swallowed them down his throat.

Who acts: wolf, one · What happens: find, use, swallow down · To what, where: kitchen, great ceremony

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, one), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 found	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wolf	det
3	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 found	nsubj
4	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 found	obj
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 them	nmod:unmarked
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 used	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 used	cc
9	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 found	conj
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 ceremony	det
11	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 ceremony	amod
12	ceremony	ceremony	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 used	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 swallowed	punct
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 swallowed	nsubj
15	after	after	ADP	_	17 other	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 other	det
17	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 one	nmod
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 swallowed	nsubj
19	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 found	conj
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 swallowed	obj
21	down	down	ADP	_	19 swallowed	compound:prt
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 throat	nmod:poss
23	throat	throat	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 swallowed	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	find	past	the wolf	kitchen	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic
2	use	past	the wolf not said here	no great ceremony	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ceremony=Patient
3	swallow down	past	one after the other	kitchen	tree rules

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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