Grimm's Fairy Stories, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 29
"Children," begged the bear; "knock some of the snow off my coat."
Who acts: Children · What happens: beg, knock · To what, where: bear, some · 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 (Children), 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 | _ | 2 Children | punct |
| 2 | Children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 begged | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Children | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Children | punct |
| 5 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bear | det |
| 7 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 begged | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 knock | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 knock | punct |
| 10 | knock | knock | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 begged | parataxis |
| 11 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 knock | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 snow | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 snow | det |
| 14 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 some | nmod |
| 15 | off | off | ADP | _ | 17 coat | case |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 coat | nmod:poss |
| 17 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 knock | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 knock | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 begged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request | past | Children | the bear | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent bear=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | knock in a quote | infinitive | some | off my coat | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent some=Patient off coat=Co-Patient |
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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