Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids, sentence 43
They embraced their dear mother, and jumped like a tailor at his wedding.
Who acts: kids, tailor · What happens: embrace, jump, wed · To what, where: dear mother, wedding
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, tailor), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 embraced | nsubj |
| 2 | embraced | embrace | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 mother | nmod:poss |
| 4 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 mother | amod |
| 5 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 embraced | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 jumped | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 jumped | cc |
| 8 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 embraced | conj |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 tailor | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 tailor | det |
| 11 | tailor | tailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 jumped | obl |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 wedding | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 wedding | nmod:poss |
| 14 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 jumped | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 embraced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | embrace | past | kids = kid | kids's dear mother | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | jump | past | kids = kid not said here | tailor's wedding | like a tailor | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at wedding=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | wed | tailor | nom wedding «event transitive»: poss=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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