Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids, sentence 53
The wolf is dead!’ and danced for joy round about the well with their mother.
Who acts: wolf · What happens: be, dance
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), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 wolf | det |
| 2 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dead | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 dead | cop |
| 4 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 dead | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 dead | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 danced | cc |
| 8 | danced | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dead | conj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 joy | case |
| 10 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 danced | obl |
| 11 | round | round | ADV | _ | 8 danced | advmod |
| 12 | about | about | ADP | _ | 14 well | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 well | det |
| 14 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 danced | obl |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 mother | case |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 mother | nmod:poss |
| 17 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 well | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 dead | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the wolf | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | dance | past | the wolf not said here | for joy; about the well with kids's mother; round property | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about well=Location |
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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