Grimms' Fairy Tales, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 26

‘Poor bear,’ said the mother, ‘lie down by the fire, only take care that you do not burn your coat.’

Who acts: you · What happens: say, lie down, take, not burn · To what, where: mother, care, coat · 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 (you), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	3 bear	punct
2	Poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bear	amod
3	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	ccomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 bear	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 bear	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 mother	det
8	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 lie	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 lie	punct
11	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	conj
12	down	down	ADP	_	11 lie	compound:prt
13	by	by	ADP	_	15 fire	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 fire	det
15	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lie	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 take	punct
17	only	only	ADV	_	18 take	advmod
18	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
19	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 take	obj
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 burn	mark
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 burn	nsubj
22	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 burn	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 burn	advmod
24	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 take	advcl
25	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 coat	nmod:poss
26	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 burn	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 take	punct
28	’	'	PUNCT	_	18 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past		the mother		tree rules
2	lie down	infinitive			by the fire	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by fire=Location
3	take	infinitive		care		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
4	not burn	present · do-support	you	your coat		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent coat=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: «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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