Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids, sentence 8
But the little kids knew that it was the wolf, by the rough voice.
Who acts: little kids, mind · What happens: know, be · To what, where: wolf · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (little kids, mind), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 knew | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 kids | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 kids | amod |
| 4 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 knew | nsubj |
| 5 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 wolf | mark |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 wolf | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 wolf | cop |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 wolf | det |
| 10 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 knew | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 voice | punct |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 voice | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 voice | det |
| 14 | rough | rough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 voice | amod |
| 15 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 knew | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | the little kids | by the rough voice | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | mind | the wolf | 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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