Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Willow-wren and the Bear, sentence 33

But the young wrens said: ‘We will not eat yet, the bear must come to the nest, and beg for pardon and say that we are honourable children, before we will do that.’

Who acts: young wrens, We, bear · What happens: say, not eat, come, be, do · To what, where: beg, nest, honourable children, that · 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, We, bear), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 said	cc
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 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 eat	punct
7	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 eat	punct
8	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 eat	nsubj
9	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 eat	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 eat	advmod
11	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
12	yet	yet	ADV	_	11 eat	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 come	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 bear	det
15	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 come	nsubj
16	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 come	aux
17	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 eat	conj
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 nest	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 nest	det
20	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 come	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 beg	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 beg	cc
23	beg	beg	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 come	obl
24	for	for	ADP	_	25 pardon	case
25	pardon	pardon	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 beg	nmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 say	cc
27	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 eat	conj
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 children	mark
29	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 children	nsubj
30	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 children	cop
31	honourable	honourable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 children	amod
32	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 say	ccomp
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 do	punct
34	before	before	SCONJ	_	37 do	mark
35	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 do	nsubj
36	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 do	aux
37	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 say	conj
38	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	37 do	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
40	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the young wrens				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not eat	future	We			yet	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	come	must	the bear	beg for pardon	the nest		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to nest=Initial_Location
4	say speech: assert	infinitive	We not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is a	present	we	honourable children			tree rules
6	do	future	we	that			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality

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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