Grimms' Fairy Tales, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 94
The bear took no heed of his words, but gave the wicked creature a single blow with his paw, and he did not move again.
Who acts: bear · What happens: take, give, not move, heed, word · To what, where: heed, wicked creature, words
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), 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 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 heed | det |
| 5 | heed | heed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 words | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 words | nmod:poss |
| 8 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 heed | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 gave | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 gave | cc |
| 11 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 creature | det |
| 13 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 creature | amod |
| 14 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gave | obj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 blow | det |
| 16 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 blow | amod |
| 17 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gave | obj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 paw | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 paw | nmod:poss |
| 20 | paw | paw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 blow | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 move | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 move | cc |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 move | nsubj |
| 24 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 move | aux |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 move | advmod |
| 26 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 took | parataxis |
| 27 | again | again | ADV | _ | 26 move | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the bear | no heed of bear's words | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heed=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give | past | the bear not said here | the wicked creature | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent creature=Recipient blow=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not move | past · do-support | bear | again | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | heed | bear's words | nom heed «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | word | bear | nom word «communication 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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