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title: ‘That is not done quite as you seem to think,’ said the wolf; ‘you m… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘That is not done quite as you seem to think,’ said the wolf; ‘you must wait until the Queen comes,’ Soon afterwards, the Queen arrived with some food in her beak, and the lord King came too, and they began to feed their young ones. Who acts: you, Queen, lord, bear. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tale
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Willow-wren and the Bear, sentence 5

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‘That is not done quite as you seem to think,’ said the wolf; ‘you must wait until the Queen comes,’ Soon afterwards, the Queen arrived with some food in her beak, and the lord King came too, and they began to feed their young ones.

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**Who acts:** you, Queen, lord, bear · **What happens:** not do, seem, think, say, wait, come · **To what, where:** That, wolf, beak, young ones · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (you, Queen, lord, bear), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg2591:12:5
# text = ‘That is not done quite as you seem to think,’ said the wolf; ‘you must wait until the Queen comes,’ Soon afterwards, the Queen arrived with some food in her beak, and the lord King came too, and they began to feed their young ones.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	ccomp	_	_
6	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	seem	seem	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
14	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
18	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
22	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
28	Soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	29	advmod	_	_
29	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
33	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
34	with	with	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	36	det	_	_
36	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	beak	beak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nsubj	_	_
44	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	appos	_	_
45	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
46	too	too	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
49	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
50	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	conj	_	_
51	to	to	PART	TO	_	52	mark	_	_
52	feed	feed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	50	xcomp	_	_
53	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	55	nmod:poss	_	_
54	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	amod	_	_
55	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **do** | present · passive |  | That |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 2 | **seem** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  | the wolf |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **wait** | must | you |  |  |  |  | afterwards *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **come** | present | the Queen |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **arrive** | past | the Queen |  |  | Queen's beak |  | with some food | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **come** | past | the lord |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 9 | **begin** | past | bear |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 10 | **feed** | to-infinitive | bear *not said here* | bear's young ones |  |  |  |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Recipient |

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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.

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**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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