Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids, sentence 47

But when he began to walk and to move about, the stones in his stomach knocked against each other and rattled.

Who acts: wolf, stones · What happens: begin, walk, move about, knock, rattle · To what, where: each

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, stones), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	17 knocked	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 began	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 began	nsubj
4	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 knocked	advcl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 walk	mark
6	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 began	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 move	cc
8	to	to	PART	_	9 move	mark
9	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 walk	conj
10	about	about	ADV	_	9 move	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 stones	det
13	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 knocked	nsubj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 stomach	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 stomach	nmod:poss
16	stomach	stomach	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stones	nmod
17	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	against	against	ADP	_	19 each	case
19	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	17 knocked	obl
20	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 each	fixed
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 rattled	cc
22	rattled	rattle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 knocked	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 knocked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	begin	past	wolf			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	walk	to-infinitive	wolf not said here			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	move about	to-infinitive	wolf not said here		about property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	knock	past	the stones in wolf's stomach	each		vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against each=Location
5	rattle	participle	the stones in wolf's stomach not said here			vn animal_sounds-38 «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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