Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Willow-wren and the Bear, sentence 11
When the young wrens heard that, they were frightfully angry, and screamed: ‘No, that we are not!
Who acts: young wrens, bear, we · What happens: hear, be, scream, not be · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (young wrens, bear, we), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 heard | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 wrens | det |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 wrens | amod |
| 4 | wrens | wren | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 heard | nsubj |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 screamed | advcl |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 angry | mark |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 that | punct |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 angry | nsubj |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 angry | cop |
| 10 | frightfully | frightfully | ADV | _ | 11 angry | advmod |
| 11 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 heard | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 screamed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 screamed | cc |
| 14 | screamed | scream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 screamed | punct |
| 16 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 screamed | punct |
| 17 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 14 screamed | discourse |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 are | punct |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 are | mark |
| 20 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 are | nsubj |
| 21 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 screamed | conj |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 are | advmod |
| 23 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 14 screamed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the young wrens | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | past | bear | angry, frightfully property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | scream speech: express | past | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | not be | present | we | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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: «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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