--- title: The young willow-wrens, however, continued to cry and scream, and wh… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: The young willow-wrens, however, continued to cry and scream, and when their parents again brought food they said: ‘We will not so much as touch one fly’s leg, no, not if we were dying of hunger, until you have settled whether we are respectable children or not; the bear has been here and has insult --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/12/15/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Grimms' Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/) / [The Willow-wren and the Bear](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/12/) / 15 # Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Willow-wren and the Bear, sentence 15 The young willow-wrens, however, continued to cry and scream, and when their parents again brought food they said: ‘We will not so much as touch one fly’s leg, no, not if we were dying of hunger, until you have settled whether we are respectable children or not; the bear has been here and has insulted us!’ **Who acts:** parents, bear, we, you · **What happens:** continue, cry, scream, bring, say, not die · **To what, where:** young willow wrens, food, respectable children, bear · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Willow-wren and the Bear. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (parents, bear, 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg2591:12:15 # text = The young willow-wrens, however, continued to cry and scream, and when their parents again brought food they said: ‘We will not so much as touch one fly’s leg, no, not if we were dying of hunger, until you have settled whether we are respectable children or not; the bear has been here and has insulted us!’ 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 2 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 3 willow willow NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 wrens wren NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj:pass _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 7 however however ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 9 continued continue VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 cry cry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 xcomp _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 scream scream VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 16 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 20 advmod _ _ 17 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 19 again again ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 brought bring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 21 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 22 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 : : PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 25 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 We we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 27 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 28 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 30 advmod _ _ 29 so so ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 conj _ _ 31 as as ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 touch touch NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 33 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 34 nummod _ _ 34 fly fly NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 35 ’s 's PART POS _ 34 case _ _ 36 leg leg NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 38 no no INTJ UH Polarity=Neg 44 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 40 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 44 advmod _ _ 41 if if SCONJ IN _ 44 mark _ _ 42 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 43 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 44 aux _ _ 44 dying die VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 30 parataxis _ _ 45 of of ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 46 hunger hunger NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 47 , , PUNCT , _ 51 punct _ _ 48 until until SCONJ IN _ 51 mark _ _ 49 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 51 nsubj _ _ 50 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 51 aux _ _ 51 settled settle VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 9 conj _ _ 52 whether whether SCONJ IN _ 56 mark _ _ 53 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 56 nsubj _ _ 54 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 56 cop _ _ 55 respectable respectable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 56 amod _ _ 56 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 51 conj _ _ 57 or or CCONJ CC _ 58 cc _ _ 58 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 56 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 59 ; ; PUNCT : _ 67 punct _ _ 60 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 61 det _ _ 61 bear bear NOUN NN Number=Sing 67 nsubj:pass _ _ 62 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 67 aux _ _ 63 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 64 cop _ _ 64 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 67 advmod _ _ 65 and and CCONJ CC _ 67 cc _ _ 66 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 67 aux _ _ 67 insulted insult VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 advcl _ _ 68 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 67 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 69 ! ! PUNCT . _ 67 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 70 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 67 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **continue** | participle · passive | | the young willow wrens | | | | however *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **scream** *speech: express* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **bring** | past | bear's parents | food | | | again | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent food=Theme | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | bear | food *not said here* | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent food=Topic | | 6 | **not** **die** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · progressive | we | | | | | of hunger | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of hunger=Causer | | 7 | **settle** | present · perfect | you | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **is a** | present | we | respectable children | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **is** | participle | | | | | | here *property* | tree rules | | 10 | **insult** | present · perfect · passive | | the bear | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer we=Result | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/12/14/) - next →: [sentence 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/12/16/) - ↑ back to [The Willow-wren and the Bear](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/12/)