Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids, sentence 34

At last, when she came to the youngest, a soft voice cried: ‘Dear mother, I am in the clock-case.’

Who acts: sight, soft voice, I · What happens: come, cry, be · To what, where: last, Dear mother, clock case

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 (sight, soft voice, I), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 came	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 last	punct
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 came	advmod
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 youngest	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 youngest	det
9	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 came	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 cried	punct
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 voice	det
12	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 voice	amod
13	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cried	nsubj
14	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	conj
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 mother	punct
16	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 mother	punct
17	Dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 mother	amod
18	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cried	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 case	punct
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 case	nsubj
21	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 case	cop
22	in	in	ADP	_	26 case	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 case	det
24	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 case	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 clock	punct
26	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 mother	appos
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 case	punct
28	’	'	PUNCT	_	26 case	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	sight		last	to the youngest	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to young=Initial_Location
2	cry speech: express	past	a soft voice	Dear mother			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	I		the clock case		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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