Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids, sentence 16

The miller thought to himself: ‘The wolf wants to deceive someone,’ and refused; but the wolf said: ‘If you will not do it, I will devour you.’

Who acts: miller, wolf, you, I · What happens: think, want, deceive, refuse, say, not do · To what, where: miller, someone, baker, you · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (miller, wolf, you, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 miller	det
2	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thought	nsubj
3	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 himself	case
5	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 thought	obl
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 wants	punct
7	‘	'	PUNCT	_	10 wants	punct
8	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wolf	det
9	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wants	nsubj
10	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 thought	parataxis
11	to	to	PART	_	12 deceive	mark
12	deceive	deceive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 wants	xcomp
13	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	12 deceive	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 wants	punct
15	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 wants	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 refused	cc
17	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 wants	conj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 said	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 said	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 wolf	det
21	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 said	nsubj
22	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thought	parataxis
23	:	:	PUNCT	_	34 devour	punct
24	‘	'	PUNCT	_	34 devour	punct
25	If	if	SCONJ	_	29 do	mark
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 do	nsubj
27	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 do	aux
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 do	advmod
29	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 devour	advcl
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 do	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 do	punct
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 devour	nsubj
33	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 devour	aux
34	devour	devour	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 said	ccomp
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 devour	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	34 devour	punct
37	’	'	PUNCT	_	34 devour	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	the miller		miller	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	want	present	the wolf			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	deceive not said to happen	to-infinitive	the wolf not said here	someone		vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Patient
4	refuse	past	the wolf not said here			vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
5	say speech: assert	past	the wolf			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	not do a condition, not said to happen	future	you	baker		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
7	devour	future	I	you		vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient

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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