Grimm's Fairy Stories, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 108
But the bear would not be moved by his speeches.
Who acts: speeches, fellow · What happens: not move, speak · To what, where: bear · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (speeches, fellow), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 moved | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bear | det |
| 3 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 moved | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 moved | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 moved | advmod |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 moved | aux:pass |
| 7 | moved | move | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 speeches | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 speeches | nmod:poss |
| 10 | speeches | speech | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 moved | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 moved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not move | would · passive | fellow's speeches | the bear | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | speak | fellow | nom speech «communication 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: «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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