Grimm's Fairy Stories, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 27

Then she called Snow-White and Rose-Red, telling them that the bear was kind, and would not harm them.

Who acts: hair, bear · What happens: call, tell, be, not harm · To what, where: Snow, roses · 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 (hair, bear), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 called	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 called	nsubj
3	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 called	obj
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 White	punct
6	White	White	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Snow	appos
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 Rose	cc
8	Rose	Rose	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 White	conj
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 Red	punct
10	Red	Red	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Rose	flat
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 telling	punct
12	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 called	advcl
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 telling	iobj
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 kind	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 bear	det
16	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 kind	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 kind	cop
18	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 telling	xcomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 harm	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 harm	cc
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 harm	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 harm	advmod
23	harm	harm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 kind	conj
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 harm	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	call	past	hair	Snow		then		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent snow=Recipient
2	tell speech: assert	gerund	hair not said here		roses = rose			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
3	is not said to happen	past	the bear				kind property	tree rules
4	not harm	would	the bear not said here	roses = rose				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer

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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