Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Willow-wren and the Bear, sentence 4
‘IF that’s the case,’ said the bear, ‘I should very much like to see his royal palace; come, take me thither.’
Who acts: that, I · What happens: be, say, like, see, come, take · To what, where: case, bear, royal palace, me · 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, I), 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 | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 2 | IF | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 case | mark |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 case | nsubj |
| 4 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 case | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 case | det |
| 6 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 case | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bear | det |
| 11 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 like | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 like | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 like | nsubj |
| 15 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 like | aux |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 much | advmod |
| 17 | much | much | ADV | _ | 18 like | advmod |
| 18 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 see | mark |
| 20 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 like | xcomp |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 palace | nmod:poss |
| 22 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 palace | amod |
| 23 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 see | obj |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 come | punct |
| 25 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 like | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 take | punct |
| 27 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 come | conj |
| 28 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 take | obj |
| 29 | thither | thither | ADV | _ | 27 take | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 31 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a a condition, not said to happen | present | that | the case | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the bear | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | like | should | I | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | see not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | bird's royal palace | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer palace=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | come | infinitive | I not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | take | infinitive | I not said here | me | thither property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination |
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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