--- title: Then the willow-wren flew to the bear’s hole and cried: ‘Growler, yo… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Then the willow-wren flew to the bear’s hole and cried: ‘Growler, you are to come to the nest to my children, and beg their pardon, or else every rib of your body shall be broken.’ Who acts: willow wren, you, children. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (willow wren, you, children), 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:pg2591:12:34 # text = Then the willow-wren flew to the bear’s hole and cried: ‘Growler, you are to come to the nest to my children, and beg their pardon, or else every rib of your body shall be broken.’ 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 6 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 3 willow willow NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 wren wren NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 flew fly VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 bear bear NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ’s 's PART POS _ 9 case _ _ 11 hole hole NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 : : PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 15 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 Growler growler NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 19 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 22 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 nest nest NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 25 to to ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 beg beg VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 31 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 pardon pardon NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 34 or or CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 35 else else ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 36 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 37 det _ _ 37 rib rib NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nsubj:pass _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 40 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod _ _ 41 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ _ 42 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 43 aux:pass _ _ 43 broken break VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 45 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fly** | past | the willow wren | | | | then | to the bear's hole *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to hole=Result | | 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | the willow wren *not said here* | Growler | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | present | you | | | | | to the nest; to my children; come *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **beg** *speech: request* | present | the willow wren *not said here* | children's pardon | | | | | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent pardon=Recipient | | 5 | **break** | shall · passive | | every rib of your body | | | | else *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 6 | **pardon** | | children *= child* | | | | | | nom pardon «act transitive»: poss=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. - ← previous: [sentence 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/12/33/) - next →: [sentence 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/12/35/) - ↑ back to [The Willow-wren and the Bear](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/12/)