--- title: Soon afterwards the wolf came and wished him joy, and said, ‘Now, my… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Soon afterwards the wolf came and wished him joy, and said, ‘Now, my good fellow, you must tell no tales, but turn your head the other way when I want to taste one of the old shepherd’s fine fat sheep.’ Who acts: wolf, you, I. 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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 (wolf, you, I), 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:pg2591:6:14 # text = Soon afterwards the wolf came and wished him joy, and said, ‘Now, my good fellow, you must tell no tales, but turn your head the other way when I want to taste one of the old shepherd’s fine fat sheep.’ 1 Soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 2 advmod _ _ 2 afterwards afterwards ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 wolf wolf NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 wished wish VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 8 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ _ 9 joy joy NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 14 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 23 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 17 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 18 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 fellow fellow NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 21 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 ccomp _ _ 24 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 25 det _ _ 25 tales tale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 but but CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 turn turn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 29 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nsubj _ _ 34 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 36 advmod _ _ 35 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 want want VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 acl:relcl _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 taste taste VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 xcomp _ _ 39 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 38 obj _ _ 40 of of ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 42 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 shepherd shepherd NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 44 ’s be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 parataxis _ _ 45 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 amod _ _ 46 fat fat NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 compound _ _ 47 sheep sheep NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 49 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | the wolf | | | | | afterwards *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **wish** | past | the wolf *not said here* | wolf | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the wolf *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | must | you | no tales | | | now | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient | | 5 | **turn** | infinitive | the wolf *not said here* | your head | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme | | 6 | **want** | present | I | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 7 | **taste** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | one of the old shepherd | | | | | vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme one=Attribute | 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 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/6/13/) - next →: [sentence 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/6/15/) - ↑ back to [Old Sultan](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/6/)