Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Willow-wren and the Bear, sentence 2

‘That is the King of birds,’ said the wolf, ‘before whom we must bow down.’

Who acts: That, King, we · What happens: be, say, bow down · To what, where: King, wolf · 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 (That, King, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 King	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 King	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 King	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 King	det
5	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 birds	case
7	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 King	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 King	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 King	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 wolf	det
12	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 bow	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 bow	punct
15	before	before	ADP	_	16 whom	case
16	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 bow	obl
17	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 bow	nsubj
18	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 bow	aux
19	bow	bow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	parataxis
20	down	down	ADP	_	19 bow	compound:prt
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 bow	punct
22	’	'	PUNCT	_	19 bow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	That	the King	of birds	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the King	the wolf		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent wolf=Topic
3	bow down	must	we			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before whom=Location

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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