Grimms' Fairy Tales, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 91
Then in the dread of his heart he cried: ‘Dear Mr Bear, spare me, I will give you all my treasures; look, the beautiful jewels lying there!
Who acts: bear, I, beautiful jewels, my · What happens: cry, spare, give, look, lie, dread · To what, where: Dear Mr Bear, dread, me, treasures, you, beautiful jewels
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, beautiful jewels, my), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 cried | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 dread | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 dread | det |
| 4 | dread | dread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cried | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 heart | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 heart | nmod:poss |
| 7 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dread | nmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 cried | nsubj |
| 9 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 Bear | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 Bear | punct |
| 12 | Dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Bear | amod |
| 13 | Mr | Mr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Bear | compound |
| 14 | Bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cried | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 spare | punct |
| 16 | spare | spare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 Bear | conj |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 spare | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 give | punct |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 give | nsubj |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 give | aux |
| 21 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 cried | conj |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 give | iobj |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 treasures | det:predet |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 treasures | nmod:poss |
| 25 | treasures | treasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 give | obj |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 look | punct |
| 27 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 21 give | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 jewels | punct |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 jewels | det |
| 30 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 jewels | amod |
| 31 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 look | obl |
| 32 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 31 jewels | acl |
| 33 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 32 lying | advmod |
| 34 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | bear | Dear Mr Bear | the dread of bear's heart | then | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in dread=Location | ||
| 2 | spare | infinitive | bear not said here | me | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent i=Asset | ||||
| 3 | give | future | I | my treasures | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient treasure=Theme | |||
| 4 | look | infinitive | I not said here | the beautiful jewels | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | lie | gerund | the beautiful jewels not said here | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | dread | bear's heart | nom dread «feeling transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 7 | treasure | my | nom treasure «possession 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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