Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids, sentence 49
‘What rumbles and tumbles Against my poor bones?
What happens: rumble, tumble
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: 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 rumbles | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 rumbles | nsubj |
| 3 | rumbles | rumble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 tumbles | cc |
| 5 | tumbles | tumble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 rumbles | conj |
| 6 | Against | against | ADP | _ | 9 bones | case |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 bones | nmod:poss |
| 8 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 bones | amod |
| 9 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 tumbles | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 rumbles | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rumble | present | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | tumble | present | against my poor bones | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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