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title: The bear would have liked to go at once, but the wolf held him back… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The bear would have liked to go at once, but the wolf held him back by the sleeve, and said: ‘No, you must wait until the lord and lady Queen have gone away again.’ Who acts: wolf, you, lord. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Willow-wren and the Bear, with its dependency tree a
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Willow-wren and the Bear, sentence 6

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The bear would have liked to go at once, but the wolf held him back by the sleeve, and said: ‘No, you must wait until the lord and lady Queen have gone away again.’

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**Who acts:** wolf, you, lord · **What happens:** like, go, hold back, say, wait, go away · **To what, where:** bear, lord · **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 (wolf, you, lord), 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:pg2591:12:6
# text = The bear would have liked to go at once, but the wolf held him back by the sleeve, and said: ‘No, you must wait until the lord and lady Queen have gone away again.’
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux	_	_
5	liked	like	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	back	back	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	sleeve	sleeve	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
24	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	29	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	ccomp	_	_
30	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	_
35	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	appos	_	_
36	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	29	advcl	_	_
38	away	away	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
39	again	again	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **like** | would · perfect · passive |  | the bear |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at once=Location |
| 3 | **hold back** | past | the wolf | lord |  |  |  | by the sleeve | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme by sleeve=Location |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the wolf *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **wait** | must | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **go away** | present · perfect | the lord and lady |  |  |  | again | away *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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