Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids, sentence 5

The kids said: ‘Dear mother, we will take good care of ourselves; you may go away without any anxiety.’

Who acts: kids, we, you, ourselves · What happens: say, take, go away, care · To what, where: good care · 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 (kids, we, you, ourselves), 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 kids	det
2	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 mother	punct
5	‘	'	PUNCT	_	7 mother	punct
6	Dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 mother	amod
7	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 take	punct
9	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 take	nsubj
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 take	aux
11	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
12	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 care	amod
13	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 take	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 ourselves	case
15	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 care	nmod
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 go	punct
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 go	nsubj
18	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 go	aux
19	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
20	away	away	ADV	_	19 go	advmod
21	without	without	ADP	_	23 anxiety	case
22	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	23 anxiety	det
23	anxiety	anxiety	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 go	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 go	punct
25	’	'	PUNCT	_	19 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the kids			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	take	future	we	good care of ourselves		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
3	go away	may	you		without any anxiety; away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	care		ourselves			nom care «act intransitive»: of=agent

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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