More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 13, sentence 76

With hard persuasion poor Jack comes down, and the bear speaks to him and bids him "Come here to me; I will not do you any harm.

Who acts: poor Jack, bear · What happens: come down, speak, bid, come, not do · To what, where: Jack, bear, harm, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor Jack, 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	With	with	ADP	_	3 persuasion	case
2	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 persuasion	amod
3	persuasion	persuasion	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 comes	obl
4	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Jack	amod
5	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 comes	nsubj
6	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	down	down	ADV	_	6 comes	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 speaks	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 speaks	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bear	det
11	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 speaks	nsubj
12	speaks	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 comes	parataxis
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 speaks	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 bids	cc
16	bids	bid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 speaks	conj
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 bids	obj
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 Come	punct
19	Come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 bids	parataxis
20	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 Come	advmod
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 me	case
22	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 Come	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 do	punct
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 do	nsubj
25	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 do	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 do	advmod
27	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 comes	parataxis
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 do	iobj
29	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	30 harm	det
30	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 do	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 comes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	come down	present	poor Jack				with hard persuasion; down property	tree rules
2	speak speech: other	present	the bear		Jack			vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-Agent
3	bid	present	the bear not said here	Jack				tree rules
4	come in a quote	infinitive			the bear = bear	here		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial_Location
5	not do in a quote	future	the bear = bear	any harm	you			tree rules

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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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