Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Willow-wren and the Bear, sentence 6
The bear would have liked to go at once, but the wolf held him back by the sleeve, and said: ‘No, you must wait until the lord and lady Queen have gone away again.’
Who acts: wolf, you, lord · What happens: like, go, hold back, say, wait, go away · To what, where: bear, lord · 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 (wolf, you, lord), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bear | det |
| 2 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 liked | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 liked | aux |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 liked | aux |
| 5 | liked | like | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 go | mark |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 liked | xcomp |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 once | case |
| 9 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 7 go | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 held | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 held | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 wolf | det |
| 13 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 held | nsubj |
| 14 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 liked | parataxis |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 held | obj |
| 16 | back | back | ADV | _ | 14 held | advmod |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 sleeve | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 sleeve | det |
| 19 | sleeve | sleeve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 held | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 said | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 said | cc |
| 22 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 held | conj |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 29 wait | punct |
| 24 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 29 wait | punct |
| 25 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 29 wait | discourse |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 No | punct |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 wait | nsubj |
| 28 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 wait | aux |
| 29 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 said | ccomp |
| 30 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 37 gone | mark |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 lord | det |
| 32 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 gone | nsubj |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 lady | cc |
| 34 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 lord | conj |
| 35 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 lady | appos |
| 36 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 gone | aux |
| 37 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 29 wait | advcl |
| 38 | away | away | ADV | _ | 37 gone | advmod |
| 39 | again | again | ADV | _ | 37 gone | advmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 29 wait | punct |
| 41 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 29 wait | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like | would · perfect · passive | the bear | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at once=Location | ||||||
| 3 | hold back | past | the wolf | lord | by the sleeve | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme by sleeve=Location | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the wolf not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | wait | must | you | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | go away | present · perfect | the lord and lady | again | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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