Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids, sentence 50
I thought ‘twas six kids, But it feels like big stones.’
Who acts: I, monster · What happens: think, feel · To what, where: twas
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 (I, monster), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 twas | punct |
| 4 | twas | twa | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 thought | obj |
| 5 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 kids | nummod |
| 6 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 twas | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 feels | punct |
| 8 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 feels | cc |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 feels | nsubj |
| 10 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 thought | parataxis |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 stones | case |
| 12 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 stones | amod |
| 13 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 feels | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 feels | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 feels | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | I | twas and six kids | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot twa=Theme | ||||
| 2 | feel | present | monster | like big stones | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V S»: agent=Agent like stone=Theme |
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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