The Blue Fairy Book, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 20

But the bear began to speak, and said: “Don’t be afraid: I won’t hurt you.

Who acts: bear, I · What happens: begin, speak, say, not be, not hurt · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, 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), 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 began	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bear	det
3	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 began	nsubj
4	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 speak	mark
6	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 began	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 said	cc
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 began	parataxis
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 afraid	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 afraid	punct
12	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	15 afraid	aux
13	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 afraid	advmod
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 afraid	cop
15	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 said	conj
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 hurt	punct
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 hurt	nsubj
18	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 hurt	aux
19	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 hurt	advmod
20	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 afraid	advcl
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 hurt	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the bear			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	speak speech: other	to-infinitive	the bear not said here			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	not is in a quote	infinitive · do-support			afraid property	tree rules
5	not hurt in a quote	future	I	you		vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Patient

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: «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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