Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids, sentence 39
She looked at him on every side and saw that something was moving and struggling in his gorged belly.
Who acts: sight, something · What happens: look, see, move, struggle, gorge · To what, where: side, gorged belly · 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 (sight, something), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 him | case |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 looked | obl |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 side | case |
| 6 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 side | det |
| 7 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 looked | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 saw | cc |
| 9 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | conj |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 moving | mark |
| 11 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 13 moving | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 moving | aux |
| 13 | moving | move | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 saw | ccomp |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 struggling | cc |
| 15 | struggling | struggle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 moving | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 belly | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 belly | nmod:poss |
| 18 | gorged | gorge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 belly | amod |
| 19 | belly | belly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 struggling | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | sight | every side | at wolf | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme | |||
| 2 | see | past | sight not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | move | past · progressive | something | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | struggle | gerund | something not said here | wolf's gorged belly | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | gorge | participle | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: 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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