Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Willow-wren and the Bear, sentence 22

There stood the bear, and he called the fox before him and said: ‘Fox, you are the most cunning of all animals, you shall be general and lead us.’

Who acts: password, you · What happens: stand, call, say, be, lead · To what, where: bear, fox, cunning, us · 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 (password, 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 stood	expl
2	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bear	det
4	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stood	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 called	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 called	cc
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 called	nsubj
8	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stood	parataxis
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fox	det
10	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 called	obj
11	before	before	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 called	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 said	cc
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stood	conj
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 Fox	punct
16	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 Fox	punct
17	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 cunning	punct
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 cunning	nsubj
20	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 cunning	cop
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 cunning	det
22	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	23 cunning	advmod
23	cunning	cunning	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stood	parataxis
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 animals	case
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 animals	det
26	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 cunning	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 general	punct
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 general	nsubj
29	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 general	aux
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 general	cop
31	general	general	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 stood	parataxis
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 lead	cc
33	lead	lead	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 general	conj
34	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 lead	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stood	punct
36	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past		the bear		there			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bear=Stimulus
2	call	past	password		the fox		before fox		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent fox=Recipient
3	say speech: assert	past		Fox					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is a	present	you	the cunning				of all animals	tree rules
5	is	shall	you					general property	tree rules
6	lead	infinitive	you not said here	us					vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=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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