Grimm's Fairy Stories, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 38

When spring-time came, and all around began to look green and bright, one morning the bear said to Snow-White, "Now I must leave you, and all the summer long I shall not be able to come back."

Who acts: spring time, bear · What happens: come, begin, look, say, leave, not be · To what, where: one morning, White · 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 (spring time, 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	5 came	mark
2	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 time	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 spring	punct
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 began	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 began	cc
8	all	all	ADV	_	10 began	advmod
9	around	around	ADV	_	10 began	advmod
10	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 look	mark
12	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 began	xcomp
13	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 look	xcomp
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 bright	cc
15	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 green	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 morning	punct
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 morning	nummod
18	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 look	obl:unmarked
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 bear	det
20	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 said	nsubj
21	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 morning	acl:relcl
22	to	to	ADP	_	25 White	case
23	Snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 White	nsubj
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 White	punct
25	White	White	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 said	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 leave	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	31 leave	punct
28	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 leave	advmod
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 leave	nsubj
30	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 leave	aux
31	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 said	conj
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 leave	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 able	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 able	cc
35	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	37 summer	det:predet
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 summer	det
37	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 long	obl:unmarked
38	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	43 able	advmod
39	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	43 able	nsubj
40	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 able	aux
41	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	43 able	advmod
42	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	43 able	cop
43	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 came	conj
44	to	to	PART	_	45 come	mark
45	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 able	xcomp
46	back	back	ADV	_	45 come	advmod
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct
48	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	spring time					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	begin	past	spring time not said here				all, around property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	look	to-infinitive	spring time not said here			morning	green property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	say speech: assert	past	the bear	one morning not said here	White			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent morning=Topic to white=Recipient
5	leave in a quote	must	the bear = bear	White		now		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
6	not is in a quote	shall	the bear = bear				able, long property	tree rules
7	come back in a quote	to-infinitive	the bear = bear not said here					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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