Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Willow-wren and the Bear, sentence 10

‘Is that the royal palace?’ cried the bear; ‘it is a wretched palace, and you are not King’s children, you are disreputable children!’

Who acts: royal palace, palace, you · What happens: be, cry, not be · To what, where: royal palace, bear, wretched palace, children, disreputable children

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Willow-wren and the Bear. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (royal palace, palace, you), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 palace	punct
2	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 palace	cop
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 palace	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 palace	det
5	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 palace	amod
6	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cried	nsubj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 palace	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 palace	punct
9	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bear	det
11	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cried	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 palace	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 palace	punct
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 palace	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 palace	cop
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 palace	det
17	wretched	wretched	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 palace	amod
18	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cried	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 children	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 children	cc
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 children	nsubj
22	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 children	cop
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 children	advmod
24	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 children	nmod:poss
25	’s	's	PART	_	24 King	case
26	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 palace	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 children	punct
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 children	nsubj
29	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 children	cop
30	disreputable	disreputable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 children	amod
31	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 palace	conj
32	!	!	PUNCT	_	18 palace	punct
33	’	'	PUNCT	_	18 palace	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present		the royal palace	tree rules
2	cry speech: express	past	the royal palace	the bear	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bear=Topic
3	is a	present	palace	a wretched palace and King's children and disreputable children	tree rules
4	not is a	present	you	King's children	tree rules
5	is a	present	you	disreputable children	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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