Grimms' Fairy Tales, Old Sultan, sentence 16
However, the wolf thought he was in joke, and came one night to get a dainty morsel.
Who acts: wolf · What happens: think, be, come, get · To what, where: joke, dainty morsel · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Old Sultan. 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 5 thought | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 wolf | det |
| 4 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thought | nsubj |
| 5 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 joke | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 joke | cop |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 joke | case |
| 9 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thought | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 came | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 came | cc |
| 12 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 thought | conj |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 night | nummod |
| 14 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 came | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 get | mark |
| 16 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 came | advcl |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 morsel | det |
| 18 | dainty | dainty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 morsel | amod |
| 19 | morsel | morsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 get | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | the wolf | however property | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | past | wolf | joke | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | come | past | the wolf not said here | night | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | get | to-infinitive | the wolf not said here | a dainty morsel | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer morsel=Stimulus |
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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