--- title: After that he raised his arm, and struck the wolf such a blow on his… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics description: After that he raised his arm, and struck the wolf such a blow on his head that he fell down dead, and then they got knives and scissors and cut his body open, and drew the little fellow forth. " Who acts: Father, children. 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" **Who acts:** Father, children · **What happens:** raise, strike, fall down, get, cut, draw · **To what, where:** arm, wolf, head, knives, body, little fellow This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Water of Life. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Father, children), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg11027:17:175 # text = After that he raised his arm, and struck the wolf such a blow on his head that he fell down dead, and then they got knives and scissors and cut his body open, and drew the little fellow forth. " 1 After after ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 4 obl _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 raised raise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 arm arm NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 struck strike VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 wolf wolf NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 such such DET PDT PronType=Ind 14 det:predet _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 blow blow NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 15 on on ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 18 that that SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 19 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 21 down down ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 22 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 25 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 27 advmod _ _ 26 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 28 knives knife NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 scissors scissors NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 conj _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 cut cut VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 33 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 35 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 drew draw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 40 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 fellow fellow NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ _ 42 forth forth ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ 44 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **raise** | past | Father | Father's arm | | | after that | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme | | 2 | **strike** | past | Father *not said here* | the wolf | | Father's head | | | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent wolf=Patient blow=Result | | 3 | **fall down** | past | Father | | | | | dead, down *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **get** | past | children *= child* | knives and scissors | | | then | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer knife=Stimulus | | 5 | **cut** | past | Father *not said here* | Father's body | | | | open *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset body=Product | | 6 | **draw** | past | | the little fellow | | | | forth *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fellow=Theme | 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:** «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 174](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/17/174/) - next →: [sentence 176](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/17/176/) - ↑ back to [The Water of Life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/17/)