Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids, sentence 13

But the wolf had laid his black paws against the window, and the children saw them and cried: ‘We will not open the door, our mother has not black feet like you: you are the wolf!’

Who acts: children, We, mother, you · What happens: lay, see, cry, not open, have, be · To what, where: wolf, paws, door, black feet

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, We, mother, you), 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 laid	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wolf	det
3	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 laid	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 laid	aux
5	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 paws	nmod:poss
7	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 paws	amod
8	paws	paw	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 laid	obj
9	against	against	ADP	_	11 window	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 window	det
11	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 laid	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 saw	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 saw	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 children	det
15	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 saw	nsubj
16	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 laid	parataxis
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 saw	obj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 cried	cc
19	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 saw	conj
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	25 open	punct
21	‘	'	PUNCT	_	25 open	punct
22	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 open	nsubj
23	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 open	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 open	advmod
25	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 cried	parataxis
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 door	det
27	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 open	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 has	punct
29	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 mother	nmod:poss
30	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 has	nsubj
31	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 open	conj
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 feet	advmod
33	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 feet	amod
34	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 has	obj
35	like	like	ADP	_	36 you	case
36	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 feet	nmod
37	:	:	PUNCT	_	41 wolf	punct
38	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	41 wolf	nsubj
39	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 wolf	cop
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 wolf	det
41	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 laid	obl
42	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 laid	punct
43	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 laid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	lay	past · perfect · passive		the wolf	against the window	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme paw=Destination
2	see	past	the children	paws = paw		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
3	cry speech: express	past	the children not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	not open	future	We	the door		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme
5	have	present	our mother	black feet	like you	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Patient
6	is a	present	you	the wolf		tree rules

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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