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title: Then the wolf went away to a shopkeeper and bought himself a great l… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the wolf went away to a shopkeeper and bought himself a great lump of chalk, ate this and made his voice soft with it. Who acts: wolf. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids, sentence 11

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Then the wolf went away to a shopkeeper and bought himself a great lump of chalk, ate this and made his voice soft with it.

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**Who acts:** wolf · **What happens:** go away, buy, eat, make · **To what, where:** shopkeeper, wolf, this, voice

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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.

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**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:pg2591:35:11
# text = Then the wolf went away to a shopkeeper and bought himself a great lump of chalk, ate this and made his voice soft with it.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	away	away	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	shopkeeper	shopkeeper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	bought	buy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	10	obj	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	lump	lump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	chalk	chalk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
19	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	obj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	xcomp	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go away** | past | the wolf |  |  | a shopkeeper | then | away *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to shopkeeper=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **buy** | past | the wolf *not said here* | wolf |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent himself=Beneficiary lump=Theme |
| 3 | **eat** | past | the wolf *not said here* | this |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Patient |
| 4 | **make** | past | the wolf *not said here* | wolf's voice |  |  |  | soft *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset voice=Product |

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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.

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**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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