Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids, sentence 40

‘Ah, heavens,’ she said, ‘is it possible that my poor children whom he has swallowed down for his supper, can be still alive?’

Who acts: heavens, ‘ · What happens: say, be, swallow down · To what, where: wolf · 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 (heavens, ‘), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 heavens	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	4 heavens	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	heavens	heaven	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 said	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 heavens	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 heavens	punct
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 possible	punct
10	‘	‘	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 possible	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 possible	cop
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 possible	nsubj
13	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 said	ccomp
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 children	mark
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 children	nmod:poss
16	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 children	amod
17	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 possible	obl
18	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 swallowed	obj
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 swallowed	nsubj:pass
20	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 swallowed	aux
21	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 children	acl:relcl
22	down	down	ADP	_	21 swallowed	compound:prt
23	for	for	ADP	_	25 supper	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 supper	nmod:poss
25	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 swallowed	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 alive	punct
27	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 alive	aux
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 alive	cop
29	still	still	ADV	_	30 alive	advmod
30	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 said	ccomp
31	?	?	PUNCT	_	30 alive	punct
32	’	'	PUNCT	_	30 alive	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	heavens				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	‘			my poor children obl; possible property	tree rules
3	swallow down	present · perfect · passive		wolf		for wolf's supper	tree rules
4	is	can			still	alive property	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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