Grimm's Fairy Stories, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 101

"Dear Mr. Bear, forgive me, I pray!

Who acts: space · What happens: forgive, pray · To what, where: space

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (space), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 Bear	punct
2	Dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Bear	amod
3	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Bear	compound
4	Bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 forgive	punct
6	forgive	forgive	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 Bear	appos
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 forgive	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 pray	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 pray	nsubj
10	pray	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 Bear	parataxis
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 Bear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forgive in a quote	infinitive		space					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
2	pray in a quote	present	space						vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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: «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (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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