Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Willow-wren and the Bear, sentence 5
‘That is not done quite as you seem to think,’ said the wolf; ‘you must wait until the Queen comes,’ Soon afterwards, the Queen arrived with some food in her beak, and the lord King came too, and they began to feed their young ones.
Who acts: you, Queen, lord, bear · What happens: not do, seem, think, say, wait, come · To what, where: That, wolf, beak, young ones · 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 (you, Queen, lord, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 done | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 done | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 done | aux:pass |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 done | advmod |
| 5 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 said | ccomp |
| 6 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 5 done | advmod |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 seem | mark |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 seem | nsubj |
| 9 | seem | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 done | advcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 think | mark |
| 11 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 seem | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 done | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 wolf | det |
| 16 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | obj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 wait | punct |
| 18 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 wait | punct |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 wait | nsubj |
| 20 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 wait | aux |
| 21 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | conj |
| 22 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 25 comes | mark |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Queen | det |
| 24 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 comes | nsubj |
| 25 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 wait | advcl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 comes | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 wait | punct |
| 28 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 29 afterwards | advmod |
| 29 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 21 wait | advmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 arrived | punct |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Queen | det |
| 32 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 arrived | nsubj |
| 33 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 wait | advcl |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 food | case |
| 35 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 36 food | det |
| 36 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 arrived | obl |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 beak | case |
| 38 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 beak | nmod:poss |
| 39 | beak | beak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 arrived | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 came | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 came | cc |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 lord | det |
| 43 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 came | nsubj |
| 44 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 lord | appos |
| 45 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 said | parataxis |
| 46 | too | too | ADV | _ | 45 came | advmod |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 began | punct |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 began | cc |
| 49 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 50 began | nsubj |
| 50 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 came | conj |
| 51 | to | to | PART | _ | 52 feed | mark |
| 52 | feed | feed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 50 began | xcomp |
| 53 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 55 ones | nmod:poss |
| 54 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 55 ones | amod |
| 55 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 52 feed | obj |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do | present · passive | That | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | seem | present | you | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the wolf | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | wait | must | you | afterwards property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | come | present | the Queen | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | arrive | past | the Queen | Queen's beak | with some food | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 8 | come | past | the lord | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 9 | begin | past | bear | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 10 | feed | to-infinitive | bear not said here | bear's young ones | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Recipient |
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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