Grimm's Fairy Stories, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 34

The bear permitted them to amuse themselves in this way, only occasionally calling out, when it went a little too far, "Children, spare me an inch of life."

Who acts: bear, way · What happens: permit, amuse, call out, go, spare · To what, where: children, way, little, 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 (bear, way), 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 permitted	nsubj
3	permitted	permit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 permitted	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 amuse	mark
6	amuse	amuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 permitted	xcomp
7	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 amuse	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 way	case
9	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 way	det
10	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 amuse	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 calling	punct
12	only	only	ADV	_	14 calling	advmod
13	occasionally	occasionally	ADV	_	14 calling	advmod
14	calling	call	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 permitted	advcl
15	out	out	ADP	_	14 calling	compound:prt
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 went	punct
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 went	advmod
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 went	nsubj
19	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 calling	conj
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 little	det
21	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 went	obl:unmarked
22	too	too	ADV	_	23 far	advmod
23	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 went	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 Children	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 Children	punct
26	Children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 calling	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 spare	punct
28	spare	spare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 calling	conj
29	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 spare	obj
30	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 inch	det
31	inch	inch	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 spare	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 life	case
33	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 inch	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 permitted	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 permitted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	permit	past	the bear	children = child				vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer they=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
2	amuse not said to happen	to-infinitive	the bear not said here	children = child		this way		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus themselves=Experiencer
3	call out speech: assert	gerund	the bear not said here	Children			occasionally property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	go	past	way	a little			far property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	spare in a quote	infinitive	the bear not said here		the bear = bear			vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent i=Recipient inch=Asset

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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