Grimms' Fairy Tales, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 29

The bear said: ‘Here, children, knock the snow out of my coat a little’; so they brought the broom and swept the bear’s hide clean; and he stretched himself by the fire and growled contentedly and comfortably.

Who acts: bear, children · What happens: say, knock, bring, sweep, hide, stretch · To what, where: snow, coat, broom, bear · 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, children), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bear	det
2	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 Here	punct
5	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 Here	punct
6	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 said	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 children	punct
8	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 Here	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 knock	punct
10	knock	knock	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 snow	det
12	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 knock	obj
13	out	out	ADP	_	16 coat	case
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 coat	case
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 coat	nmod:poss
16	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 knock	obl
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 ’	det
18	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 ’	amod
19	’	'	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 coat	nmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 brought	punct
21	so	so	ADV	_	23 brought	advmod
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 brought	nsubj
23	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 broom	det
25	broom	broom	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 brought	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 swept	cc
27	swept	sweep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 brought	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 bear	det
29	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 hide	nmod:poss
30	’s	's	PART	_	29 bear	case
31	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 swept	ccomp
32	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 hide	xcomp
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 stretched	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 stretched	cc
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 stretched	nsubj
36	stretched	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	parataxis
37	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	36 stretched	obj
38	by	by	ADP	_	40 fire	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 fire	det
40	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 stretched	obl
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 growled	cc
42	growled	growl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 stretched	conj
43	contentedly	contentedly	ADV	_	42 growled	advmod
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 comfortably	cc
45	comfortably	comfortably	ADV	_	43 contentedly	conj
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the bear				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	knock	infinitive	the bear not said here	the snow	my coat a little ’		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent snow=Theme out coat=Initial_Location
3	bring	past	children = child	the broom			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent broom=Theme
4	sweep	past	children = child not said here				tree rules
5	hide	present	children = child not said here			clean property	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	stretch	past	bear	bear		by the fire	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
7	growl	past	bear not said here			contentedly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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