Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Willow-wren and the Bear, sentence 34

Then the willow-wren flew to the bear’s hole and cried: ‘Growler, you are to come to the nest to my children, and beg their pardon, or else every rib of your body shall be broken.’

Who acts: willow wren, you, children · What happens: fly, cry, be, beg, break, pardon · To what, where: Growler, pardon, rib

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 (willow wren, you, children), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 flew	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wren	det
3	willow	willow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wren	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 willow	punct
5	wren	wren	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 flew	nsubj
6	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	11 hole	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bear	det
9	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hole	nmod:poss
10	’s	's	PART	_	9 bear	case
11	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 flew	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 cried	cc
13	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 flew	conj
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 Growler	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 Growler	punct
16	Growler	growler	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cried	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 come	punct
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 come	nsubj
19	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 come	cop
20	to	to	PART	_	21 come	mark
21	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 flew	conj
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 nest	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 nest	det
24	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 come	obl
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 children	case
26	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 children	nmod:poss
27	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 come	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 beg	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 beg	cc
30	beg	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 flew	conj
31	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 pardon	nmod:poss
32	pardon	pardon	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 beg	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 broken	punct
34	or	or	CCONJ	_	43 broken	cc
35	else	else	ADV	_	43 broken	advmod
36	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	37 rib	det
37	rib	rib	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 broken	nsubj:pass
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 body	case
39	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 body	nmod:poss
40	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 rib	nmod
41	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 broken	aux
42	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	43 broken	aux:pass
43	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 beg	conj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 flew	punct
45	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	fly	past	the willow wren		then	to the bear's hole result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to hole=Result
2	cry speech: express	past	the willow wren not said here	Growler			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	you			to the nest; to my children; come property	tree rules
4	beg speech: request	present	the willow wren not said here	children's pardon			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent pardon=Recipient
5	break	shall · passive		every rib of your body		else property	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
6	pardon		children = child				nom pardon «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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