Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids, sentence 28
Soon afterwards the old goat came home again from the forest.
Who acts: old goat · What happens: come · To what, where: forest
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 (old goat), 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 afterwards | advmod |
| 2 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 6 came | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 goat | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 goat | amod |
| 5 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | nsubj |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | home | home | ADV | _ | 6 came | advmod |
| 8 | again | again | ADV | _ | 6 came | advmod |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 forest | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 forest | det |
| 11 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the old goat | the forest | again | afterwards, home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from forest=Initial_Location |
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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