Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids, sentence 44

The mother, however, said: ‘Now go and look for some big stones, and we will fill the wicked beast’s stomach with them while he is still asleep.’

Who acts: mother, we, rejoicing · What happens: say, go, look, fill, be · To what, where: stomach · 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 (mother, we, rejoicing), 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 mother	det
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 mother	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	6 said	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 however	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 go	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	10 go	punct
9	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 go	advmod
10	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 said	ccomp
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 look	cc
12	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 go	conj
13	for	for	ADP	_	16 stones	case
14	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	16 stones	det
15	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 stones	amod
16	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 look	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 fill	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 fill	cc
19	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 fill	nsubj
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 fill	aux
21	fill	fill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 go	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 beast	det
23	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 beast	amod
24	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 stomach	nmod:poss
25	’s	's	PART	_	24 beast	case
26	stomach	stomach	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 fill	obj
27	with	with	ADP	_	28 them	case
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 fill	obl
29	while	while	SCONJ	_	33 asleep	mark
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 asleep	nsubj
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 asleep	cop
32	still	still	ADV	_	33 asleep	advmod
33	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 fill	advcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 go	punct
35	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the mother			however property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go	infinitive			now		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	look	infinitive				for some big stones	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for stone=Theme
4	fill	future	we	the wicked beast's stomach		with stones = stone	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent stomach=Patient with they=Instrument
5	is	present	rejoicing		still	asleep 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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