Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids, sentence 51

And when he got to the well and stooped over the water to drink, the heavy stones made him fall in, and he drowned miserably.

Who acts: wolf, heavy stones · What happens: get, stoop, drink, make, fall in, drown · To what, where: water, wolf

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, heavy 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	19 made	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 got	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 made	advcl
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 well	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 well	det
7	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 stooped	cc
9	stooped	stoop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 got	conj
10	over	over	ADP	_	12 water	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 water	det
12	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stooped	obl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 drink	mark
14	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 stooped	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 stones	det
17	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 stones	amod
18	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 made	nsubj
19	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 made	obj
21	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 made	xcomp
22	in	in	ADV	_	21 fall	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 drowned	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 drowned	cc
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 drowned	nsubj
26	drowned	drown	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 made	conj
27	miserably	miserably	ADV	_	26 drowned	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	get	past	wolf			to the well result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to well=Result
2	stoop	participle	wolf not said here		the water		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over water=Location
3	drink	to-infinitive	wolf not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	make	past	the heavy stones	wolf			tree rules
5	fall in	infinitive	wolf not said here				vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	drown	past	wolf			miserably property	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: 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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