Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids, sentence 27

When the wolf had satisfied his appetite he took himself off, laid himself down under a tree in the green meadow outside, and began to sleep.

Who acts: wolf · What happens: satisfy, take off, lay down, begin, sleep · To what, where: wolf, tree

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	When	when	SCONJ	_	5 satisfied	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wolf	det
3	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 satisfied	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 satisfied	aux
5	satisfied	satisfy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 took	advcl
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 appetite	nmod:poss
7	appetite	appetite	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 satisfied	obj
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 took	nsubj
9	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 took	obj
11	off	off	ADP	_	9 took	compound:prt
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 laid	punct
13	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 took	conj
14	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 laid	obj
15	down	down	ADP	_	13 laid	compound:prt
16	under	under	ADP	_	18 tree	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 tree	det
18	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 laid	obl
19	in	in	ADP	_	22 meadow	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 meadow	det
21	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 meadow	amod
22	meadow	meadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 laid	obl
23	outside	outside	ADV	_	22 meadow	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 began	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 began	cc
26	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 took	conj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 sleep	mark
28	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 began	xcomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	satisfy	past · perfect · passive		the wolf			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer appetite=Result
2	take off	past	wolf	wolf			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
3	lay down	past	wolf not said here	wolf	a tree	in the green meadow	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme under tree=Destination
4	begin	past	wolf not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	sleep	to-infinitive	wolf not said here				vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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