Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Willow-wren and the Bear, sentence 15

The young willow-wrens, however, continued to cry and scream, and when their parents again brought food they said: ‘We will not so much as touch one fly’s leg, no, not if we were dying of hunger, until you have settled whether we are respectable children or not; the bear has been here and has insulted us!’

Who acts: parents, bear, we, you · What happens: continue, cry, scream, bring, say, not die · To what, where: young willow wrens, food, respectable children, bear · 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 (parents, bear, we, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wrens	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 wrens	amod
3	willow	willow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wrens	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 willow	punct
5	wrens	wren	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 continued	nsubj:pass
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 wrens	punct
7	however	however	ADV	_	9 continued	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 however	punct
9	continued	continue	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	11 cry	mark
11	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 continued	xcomp
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 scream	cc
13	scream	scream	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 cry	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 brought	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 brought	cc
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 brought	advmod
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 parents	nmod:poss
18	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 brought	nsubj
19	again	again	ADV	_	20 brought	advmod
20	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 continued	conj
21	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 brought	obj
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 said	nsubj
23	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 food	acl:relcl
24	:	:	PUNCT	_	30 much	punct
25	‘	'	PUNCT	_	30 much	punct
26	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 much	nsubj
27	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 much	aux
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 much	advmod
29	so	so	ADV	_	30 much	advmod
30	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 continued	conj
31	as	as	ADP	_	32 touch	case
32	touch	touch	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 much	nmod
33	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 fly	nummod
34	fly	fly	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 leg	nmod:poss
35	’s	's	PART	_	34 fly	case
36	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 much	nsubj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 dying	punct
38	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	44 dying	discourse
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 dying	punct
40	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	44 dying	advmod
41	if	if	SCONJ	_	44 dying	mark
42	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	44 dying	nsubj
43	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 dying	aux
44	dying	die	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 much	parataxis
45	of	of	ADP	_	46 hunger	case
46	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 dying	obl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 settled	punct
48	until	until	SCONJ	_	51 settled	mark
49	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	51 settled	nsubj
50	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	51 settled	aux
51	settled	settle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 continued	conj
52	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	56 children	mark
53	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	56 children	nsubj
54	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	56 children	cop
55	respectable	respectable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 children	amod
56	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 settled	conj
57	or	or	CCONJ	_	58 not	cc
58	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	56 children	conj
59	;	;	PUNCT	_	67 insulted	punct
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 bear	det
61	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	67 insulted	nsubj:pass
62	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	67 insulted	aux
63	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	64 here	cop
64	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	67 insulted	advmod
65	and	and	CCONJ	_	67 insulted	cc
66	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	67 insulted	aux
67	insulted	insult	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 continued	advcl
68	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	67 insulted	obj
69	!	!	PUNCT	_	67 insulted	punct
70	’	'	PUNCT	_	67 insulted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	continue	participle · passive		the young willow wrens		however property	tree rules
2	cry speech: express	to-infinitive					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	scream speech: express	infinitive					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	bring	past	bear's parents	food	again		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent food=Theme
5	say speech: assert	past	bear	food not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent food=Topic
6	not die a condition, not said to happen	past · progressive	we			of hunger	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of hunger=Causer
7	settle	present · perfect	you				vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	is a	present	we	respectable children			tree rules
9	is	participle				here property	tree rules
10	insult	present · perfect · passive		the bear			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer we=Result

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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