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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids, sentence 51

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And when he got to the well and stooped over the water to drink, the heavy stones made him fall in, and he drowned miserably.

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**Who acts:** wolf, heavy stones · **What happens:** get, stoop, drink, make, fall in, drown · **To what, where:** water, wolf

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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, heavy stones), 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:pg2591:35:51
# text = And when he got to the well and stooped over the water to drink, the heavy stones made him fall in, and he drowned miserably.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	well	well	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	stooped	stoop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
10	over	over	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	in	in	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	drowned	drown	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
27	miserably	miserably	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | wolf |  |  |  |  | to the well *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to well=Result |
| 2 | **stoop** | participle | wolf *not said here* |  |  | the water |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over water=Location |
| 3 | **drink** | to-infinitive | wolf *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **make** | past | the heavy stones | wolf |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **fall in** | infinitive | wolf *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **drown** | past | wolf |  |  |  |  | miserably *property* | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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