Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids, sentence 9

‘We will not open the door,’ cried they, ‘you are not our mother.

Who acts: We, ’, you · What happens: not open, cry, not be · To what, where: door, kids, 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 (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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 open	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 open	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 open	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 open	advmod
5	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 door	det
7	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 open	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 cried	punct
9	’	'	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 cried	nsubj
10	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 open	conj
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 cried	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 mother	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 mother	punct
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 mother	nsubj
15	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 mother	cop
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 mother	advmod
17	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 mother	nmod:poss
18	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cried	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 open	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not open	future	We	the door	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme
2	cry speech: express	past	’	kids = kid	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic
3	not is a	present	you	our 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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