Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids, sentence 41
Then the kid had to run home and fetch scissors, and a needle and thread, and the goat cut open the monster’s stomach, and hardly had she made one cut, than one little kid thrust its head out, and when she had cut farther, all six sprang out one after another, and were all still alive, and had suffered no injury whatever, for in his greediness the monster had swallowed them down whole.
Who acts: kid, needle, goat, six · What happens: have, run, fetch, cut, open, make out · To what, where: needle, scissors, stomach, one cut, one, injury
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 (kid, needle, goat, six), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 had | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 kid | det |
| 3 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 run | mark |
| 6 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 had | xcomp |
| 7 | home | home | ADV | _ | 6 run | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 fetch | cc |
| 9 | fetch | fetch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 run | conj |
| 10 | scissors | scissors | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 fetch | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 needle | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 needle | cc |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 needle | det |
| 14 | needle | needle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 thread | cc |
| 16 | thread | thread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 needle | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 cut | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 cut | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 goat | det |
| 20 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 cut | nsubj |
| 21 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 had | conj |
| 22 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 cut | xcomp |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 monster | det |
| 24 | monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 stomach | nmod:poss |
| 25 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 24 monster | case |
| 26 | stomach | stomach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 open | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 made | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 made | cc |
| 29 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 32 made | advmod |
| 30 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 made | aux |
| 31 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 made | nsubj |
| 32 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 had | conj |
| 33 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 34 cut | nummod |
| 34 | cut | cut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 made | obj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 thrust | punct |
| 36 | than | than | ADP | _ | 40 thrust | case |
| 37 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 40 thrust | nummod |
| 38 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 thrust | amod |
| 39 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 thrust | compound |
| 40 | thrust | thrust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 made | obl |
| 41 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 head | nmod:poss |
| 42 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 thrust | obj |
| 43 | out | out | ADP | _ | 32 made | compound:prt |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 cut | punct |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 cut | cc |
| 46 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 49 cut | advmod |
| 47 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 cut | nsubj |
| 48 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 49 cut | aux |
| 49 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 had | parataxis |
| 50 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 49 cut | advmod |
| 51 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 54 sprang | punct |
| 52 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 53 six | det |
| 53 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 54 sprang | nsubj |
| 54 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 49 cut | parataxis |
| 55 | out | out | ADP | _ | 54 sprang | compound:prt |
| 56 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 54 sprang | obj |
| 57 | after | after | ADP | _ | 58 another | case |
| 58 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 56 one | nmod |
| 59 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 64 alive | punct |
| 60 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 64 alive | cc |
| 61 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 64 alive | cop |
| 62 | all | all | ADV | _ | 64 alive | advmod |
| 63 | still | still | ADV | _ | 64 alive | advmod |
| 64 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 54 sprang | conj |
| 65 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 68 suffered | punct |
| 66 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 68 suffered | cc |
| 67 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 68 suffered | aux |
| 68 | suffered | suffer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 had | parataxis |
| 69 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 70 injury | det |
| 70 | injury | injury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 68 suffered | obj |
| 71 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 68 suffered | obj |
| 72 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 80 swallowed | punct |
| 73 | for | for | ADP | _ | 76 greediness | case |
| 74 | in | in | ADP | _ | 76 greediness | case |
| 75 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 76 greediness | nmod:poss |
| 76 | greediness | greediness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 80 swallowed | obl |
| 77 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 78 monster | det |
| 78 | monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 80 swallowed | nsubj:pass |
| 79 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 80 swallowed | aux |
| 80 | swallowed | swallow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 68 suffered | conj |
| 81 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 80 swallowed | obj |
| 82 | down | down | ADP | _ | 80 swallowed | compound:prt |
| 83 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 80 swallowed | xcomp |
| 84 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the kid | a needle and thread | then | tree rules | |||
| 2 | run | to-infinitive | a needle and thread not said here | home property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fetch | present | a needle and thread not said here | scissors | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scissors=Theme | ||||
| 4 | cut | past | the goat | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | open | infinitive | the goat not said here | the monster's stomach | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location stomach=Theme | ||||
| 6 | make out | past | goat | one cut | than one little kid thrust; hardly property | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cut=Stimulus | |||
| 7 | cut | past · perfect | goat | far property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 8 | spring out | past | all six | one | after another | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location one=Theme | |||
| 9 | is | past | all six not said here | still | alive, all property | tree rules | |||
| 10 | suffer | past · perfect | no injury | tree rules | |||||
| 11 | swallow down | past · perfect · passive | the monster | for wolf's greediness; whole 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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