Grimm's Fairy Stories, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 25

The bear began speaking, and said, "Do not be afraid; I will not do you any harm; I am half-frozen and would like to warm myself a little at your fire."

Who acts: bear, your · What happens: begin, speak, say, not be, not do, freeze · To what, where: harm, you, bear, fire · 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 (bear, your), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bear	det
2	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 began	nsubj
3	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	speaking	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 began	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 said	cc
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 began	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 afraid	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 afraid	punct
10	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	13 afraid	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 afraid	advmod
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 afraid	cop
13	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 said	ccomp
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 do	punct
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 do	nsubj
16	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 do	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 do	advmod
18	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 afraid	conj
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 do	iobj
20	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	21 harm	det
21	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 do	obj
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 frozen	punct
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 frozen	nsubj
24	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 frozen	aux:pass
25	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	27 frozen	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 half	punct
27	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 began	parataxis
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 like	cc
29	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 like	aux
30	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 frozen	conj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 warm	mark
32	warm	warm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 like	xcomp
33	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	32 warm	obj
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 little	det
35	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 warm	obl
36	at	at	ADP	_	38 fire	case
37	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 fire	nmod:poss
38	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 warm	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the bear					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	speak speech: other	gerund	the bear not said here					vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	the bear not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	not is in a quote	infinitive · do-support					afraid property	tree rules
5	not do in a quote	future	the bear = bear	any harm	you			tree rules
6	freeze in a quote	present · passive		the bear = bear				vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result
7	like in a quote	would						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
8	warm not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive		the bear = bear		your fire	a little obl	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent myself=Patient
9	fire in a quote		your					nom fire «event 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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