Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids, sentence 46
When the wolf at length had had his fill of sleep, he got on his legs, and as the stones in his stomach made him very thirsty, he wanted to go to a well to drink.
Who acts: wolf · What happens: have, get, make, want, go, drink · To what, where: fill, legs, wolf, well
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 (wolf), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 had | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wolf | det |
| 3 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 had | nsubj |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 length | case |
| 5 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wolf | nmod |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 had | aux |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 got | advcl |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 fill | nmod:poss |
| 9 | fill | fill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 had | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 sleep | case |
| 11 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fill | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 had | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 got | nsubj |
| 14 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 legs | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 legs | nmod:poss |
| 17 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 got | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 made | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 made | cc |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 stones | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 stones | det |
| 22 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 made | obl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 stomach | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 stomach | nmod:poss |
| 25 | stomach | stomach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 stones | nmod |
| 26 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 got | conj |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 made | obj |
| 28 | very | very | ADV | _ | 29 thirsty | advmod |
| 29 | thirsty | thirsty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 made | xcomp |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 wanted | punct |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 wanted | nsubj |
| 32 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 got | conj |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 go | mark |
| 34 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 wanted | xcomp |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 well | case |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 well | det |
| 37 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 go | obl |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 drink | mark |
| 39 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 go | advcl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past · perfect | the wolf at length | wolf's fill of sleep | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fill=Patient | ||||
| 2 | get | past | wolf | wolf's legs | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on leg=Source | ||||
| 3 | make | past | wolf not said here | wolf | as the stones in wolf's stomach; thirsty property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product | |||
| 4 | want | past | wolf | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | wolf not said here | a well | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to well=Initial_Location | ||||
| 6 | drink | to-infinitive | wolf not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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