Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Willow-wren and the Bear, sentence 35
So the bear crept thither in the greatest fear, and begged their pardon.
Who acts: bear · What happens: creep, beg, pardon · To what, where: greatest fear, pardon
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Willow-wren and the Bear. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 crept | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bear | det |
| 3 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 crept | nsubj |
| 4 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | thither | thither | ADV | _ | 4 crept | advmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 fear | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 fear | det |
| 8 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 fear | amod |
| 9 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 crept | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 begged | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 begged | cc |
| 12 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 crept | conj |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 pardon | nmod:poss |
| 14 | pardon | pardon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 begged | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 crept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | creep | past | the bear | the greatest fear | thither property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in fear=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | beg speech: request | past | the bear not said here | bear's pardon | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent pardon=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | pardon | bear | nom pardon «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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