Grimms' Fairy Tales, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 24

But the bear began to speak and said: ‘Do not be afraid, I will do you no harm!

Who acts: bear, I · What happens: begin, speak, say, not be, do · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» 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, I), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 began	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bear	det
3	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 began	nsubj
4	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 speak	mark
6	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 began	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 said	cc
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 began	conj
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 afraid	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 afraid	punct
11	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	14 afraid	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 afraid	advmod
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 afraid	cop
14	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 said	ccomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 do	punct
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 do	nsubj
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 do	aux
18	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 afraid	conj
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 do	obj
20	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	21 harm	det
21	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 do	obj
22	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the bear			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	speak speech: other	to-infinitive	the bear not said here			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	the bear not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	not is	infinitive · do-support			afraid property	tree rules
5	do	future	I	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: «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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