Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids, sentence 45
Then the seven kids dragged the stones thither with all speed, and put as many of them into this stomach as they could get in; and the mother sewed him up again in the greatest haste, so that he was not aware of anything and never once stirred.
Who acts: seven kids, kids, mother, rejoicing · What happens: drag, put, get in, sew up, not be, not stir · To what, where: stones, many, stomach, rejoicing, greatest haste
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 (seven kids, kids, mother, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 dragged | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 kids | det |
| 3 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 kids | nummod |
| 4 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 dragged | nsubj |
| 5 | dragged | drag | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 stones | det |
| 7 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 dragged | obj |
| 8 | thither | thither | ADV | _ | 5 dragged | advmod |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 speed | case |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 speed | det |
| 11 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dragged | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 put | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 put | cc |
| 14 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 dragged | conj |
| 15 | as | as | ADV | _ | 16 many | advmod |
| 16 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 put | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 them | case |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 many | nmod |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 stomach | case |
| 20 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 stomach | det |
| 21 | stomach | stomach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 put | obl |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 get | mark |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 get | nsubj |
| 24 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 get | aux |
| 25 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 put | advcl |
| 26 | in | in | ADV | _ | 25 get | advmod |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 sewed | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 sewed | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 mother | det |
| 30 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 sewed | nsubj |
| 31 | sewed | sew | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dragged | conj |
| 32 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 sewed | obj |
| 33 | up | up | ADP | _ | 31 sewed | compound:prt |
| 34 | again | again | ADV | _ | 31 sewed | advmod |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 haste | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 haste | det |
| 37 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 38 haste | amod |
| 38 | haste | haste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 sewed | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 aware | punct |
| 40 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 45 aware | mark |
| 41 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 40 so | fixed |
| 42 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 aware | nsubj |
| 43 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 aware | cop |
| 44 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 45 aware | advmod |
| 45 | aware | aware | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 sewed | parataxis |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 anything | case |
| 47 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 45 aware | obl |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 stirred | cc |
| 49 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 51 stirred | advmod |
| 50 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 51 stirred | advmod |
| 51 | stirred | stir | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 45 aware | conj |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 dragged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drag | past | the seven kids | the stones | then | with all speed; thither property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme | ||
| 2 | put | infinitive | the seven kids not said here | many of kids | this stomach | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent many=Goal | |||
| 3 | get in | could | kids = kid | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | sew up | past | the mother | rejoicing | the greatest haste | again | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in haste=Destination | ||
| 5 | not is | past | rejoicing | of anything; aware property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | not stir | participle | rejoicing not said here | once property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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