Grimms' Fairy Tales, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 32
But the bear took it all in good part, only when they were too rough he called out: ‘Leave me alive, children,
Who acts: bear, children · What happens: take, be, call out, leave · To what, where: switch, me
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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 took | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bear | det |
| 3 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 took | obj |
| 6 | all | all | ADV | _ | 9 part | advmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 part | case |
| 8 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 part | amod |
| 9 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 rough | punct |
| 11 | only | only | ADV | _ | 16 rough | advmod |
| 12 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 16 rough | mark |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 rough | nsubj |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 rough | cop |
| 15 | too | too | ADV | _ | 16 rough | advmod |
| 16 | rough | rough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 took | parataxis |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 called | nsubj |
| 18 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 rough | advcl |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 called | compound:prt |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 Leave | punct |
| 21 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 Leave | punct |
| 22 | Leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 took | conj |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 Leave | obj |
| 24 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 Leave | xcomp |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 children | punct |
| 26 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 Leave | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the bear | switch | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument it=Theme part=Destination | ||||
| 2 | is | past | children = child | rough property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | call out speech: assert | participle | bear | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | leave | infinitive | the bear not said here | me | children obl; alive property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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