Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids, sentence 4

The wretch often disguises himself, but you will know him at once by his rough voice and his black feet.’

Who acts: wretch, you · What happens: disguise, know · To what, where: wretch

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 (wretch, you), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wretch	det
2	wretch	wretch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 disguises	nsubj
3	often	often	ADV	_	4 disguises	advmod
4	disguises	disguise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 disguises	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 know	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 know	cc
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 know	nsubj
9	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 know	aux
10	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 disguises	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 know	obj
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 once	case
13	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	10 know	obl
14	by	by	ADP	_	17 voice	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 voice	nmod:poss
16	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 voice	amod
17	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 know	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 feet	cc
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 feet	nmod:poss
20	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 feet	amod
21	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 voice	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 disguises	punct
23	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 disguises	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	disguise	present	the wretch	wretch				often property	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme himself=Destination
2	know	future	you	wretch				by wretch's rough voice and wretch's black feet	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

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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