Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids, sentence 38

When they came to the meadow, there lay the wolf by the tree and snored so loud that the branches shook.

Who acts: kids, branches · What happens: come, lie, snore, shake · To what, where: meadow, wolf

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 (kids, branches), 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	ADV	PronType=Int	3 came	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 meadow	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 meadow	det
6	meadow	meadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 lay	punct
8	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	9 lay	expl
9	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	parataxis
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 wolf	det
11	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lay	obj
12	by	by	ADP	_	14 tree	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 tree	det
14	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lay	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 snored	cc
16	snored	snore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 lay	conj
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 loud	advmod
18	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 snored	xcomp
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 shook	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 branches	det
21	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 shook	nsubj
22	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 loud	advcl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	kids = kid		the meadow		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to meadow=Initial_Location
2	lie	past		the wolf	there	by the tree	vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wolf=Theme
3	snore	past				loud property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	shake	past	the branches				vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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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