Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids, sentence 20

The little kids cried: ‘First show us your paws that we may know if you are our dear little mother.’

Who acts: little kids, we, you · What happens: cry, show, know, be · To what, where: paws, us, dear little mother

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 (little kids, we, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 kids	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 kids	amod
3	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cried	nsubj
4	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 show	punct
6	‘	'	PUNCT	_	8 show	punct
7	First	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 show	advmod
8	show	show	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 cried	conj
9	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 show	iobj
10	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 paws	nmod:poss
11	paws	paw	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 show	obj
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 know	mark
13	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 know	nsubj
14	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 know	aux
15	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 show	advcl
16	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 mother	mark
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 mother	nsubj
18	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 mother	cop
19	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 mother	nmod:poss
20	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 mother	amod
21	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 mother	amod
22	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 know	ccomp
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 cried	punct
24	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	the little kids				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	show	infinitive	the little kids not said here	your paws	us	first property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient paw=Topic
3	know	may	we				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is a a condition, not said to happen	present	you	our dear little mother			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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