Grimms' Fairy Tales, Old Sultan, sentence 24

So they looked up, and espied the wolf sitting amongst the branches; and they called him a cowardly rascal, and would not suffer him to come down till he was heartily ashamed of himself, and had promised to be good friends again with old Sultan.

Who acts: ears, wolf · What happens: look up, espy, sit, call, not suffer, come down · To what, where: wolf, branches, good friends · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Old Sultan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ears, wolf), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 looked	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 looked	nsubj
3	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 looked	compound:prt
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 espied	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 espied	cc
7	espied	espy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 looked	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wolf	det
9	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 espied	obj
10	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 wolf	acl
11	amongst	amongst	ADP	_	13 branches	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 branches	det
13	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 sitting	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 called	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 called	cc
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 called	nsubj
17	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 looked	parataxis
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 called	obj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 rascal	det
20	cowardly	cowardly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 rascal	amod
21	rascal	rascal	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 called	xcomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 suffer	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 suffer	cc
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 suffer	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 suffer	advmod
26	suffer	suffer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 called	conj
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 suffer	obj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 come	mark
29	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 suffer	xcomp
30	down	down	ADV	_	29 come	advmod
31	till	till	SCONJ	_	35 ashamed	mark
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 ashamed	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 ashamed	cop
34	heartily	heartily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 ashamed	amod
35	ashamed	ashamed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 come	advcl
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 himself	case
37	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	35 ashamed	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 promised	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 promised	cc
40	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 promised	aux
41	promised	promise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 called	conj
42	to	to	PART	_	45 friends	mark
43	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	45 friends	cop
44	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 friends	amod
45	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 promised	xcomp
46	again	again	ADV	_	45 friends	advmod
47	with	with	ADP	_	49 Sultan	case
48	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 Sultan	amod
49	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	45 friends	nmod
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look up	past	ears = ear						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	espy	past	ears = ear not said here	the wolf					vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wolf=Stimulus
3	sit	gerund	the wolf not said here			the branches			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent amongst branch=Location
4	call	past	ears = ear		wolf				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
5	not suffer	would	ears = ear not said here	wolf					tree rules
6	come down	to-infinitive	ears = ear not said here					down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	is	past	wolf					of wolf; ashamed property	tree rules
8	promise speech: promise	past · perfect	ears = ear not said here						vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
9	is a not said to happen	to-infinitive	ears = ear not said here	good friends			again	with old Sultan	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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