Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids, sentence 52
When the seven kids saw that, they came running to the spot and cried aloud: ‘The wolf is dead!
Who acts: seven kids, kids, wolf · What happens: see, come, run, cry, be
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 (seven kids, kids, 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 | 5 saw | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 kids | det |
| 3 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 kids | nummod |
| 4 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 came | advcl |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 saw | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 came | nsubj |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 came | advcl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 spot | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 spot | det |
| 13 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 running | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 cried | cc |
| 15 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 came | conj |
| 16 | aloud | aloud | ADV | _ | 15 cried | advmod |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 dead | punct |
| 18 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 dead | punct |
| 19 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 wolf | det |
| 20 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 dead | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 dead | cop |
| 22 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 cried | advcl |
| 23 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the seven kids | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | come | past | kids = kid | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | run | gerund | kids = kid not said here | to the spot result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to spot=Result | ||||
| 4 | cry speech: express | past | kids = kid not said here | aloud property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | is | present | the wolf | dead property | tree rules |
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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