Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids, sentence 3
So she called all seven to her and said: ‘Dear children, I have to go into the forest, be on your guard against the wolf; if he comes in, he will devour you all--skin, hair, and everything.
Who acts: goat, I, Dear children, he · What happens: call, say, have, go, be, come in · To what, where: seven, her, Dear children, forest, guard, everything · 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 (goat, I, Dear children, he), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 called | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 called | nsubj |
| 3 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 seven | det |
| 5 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 called | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 her | case |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 seven | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 said | cc |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 called | conj |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 children | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 children | punct |
| 12 | Dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 children | amod |
| 13 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 said | ccomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 have | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 have | nsubj |
| 16 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 children | acl:relcl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 go | mark |
| 18 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 have | xcomp |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 forest | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 forest | det |
| 21 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 go | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 guard | punct |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 guard | cop |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 guard | case |
| 25 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 guard | nmod:poss |
| 26 | guard | guard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 go | obl |
| 27 | against | against | ADP | _ | 29 wolf | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 wolf | det |
| 29 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 guard | nmod |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 comes | punct |
| 31 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 33 comes | mark |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 comes | nsubj |
| 33 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 called | conj |
| 34 | in | in | ADV | _ | 33 comes | advmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 devour | punct |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 devour | nsubj |
| 37 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 devour | aux |
| 38 | devour | devour | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 comes | conj |
| 39 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 38 devour | obj |
| 40 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 39 you | nmod:unmarked |
| 41 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 42 skin | punct |
| 42 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 devour | parataxis |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 hair | punct |
| 44 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 skin | conj |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 everything | punct |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 everything | cc |
| 47 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 33 comes | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past | goat | all seven | her = she | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent seven=Topic to she=Recipient | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | goat not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | have | present | I | Dear children not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | go | to-infinitive | Dear children not said here | the forest | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into forest=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | is | infinitive | your guard | against the wolf | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | come in a condition, not said to happen | present | he | everything | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | devour | future | he | you | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient |
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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