The Blue Fairy Book, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 22

“My poor bear,” said the mother, “lie down by the fire, only take care you don’t burn your fur.”

Who acts: poor bear, you · What happens: say, lie down, take, not burn · To what, where: mother, care, fur · 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 (poor bear, you), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 bear	nmod:poss
3	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bear	amod
4	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 bear	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 bear	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 mother	det
9	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 lie	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 lie	punct
12	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
13	down	down	ADP	_	12 lie	compound:prt
14	by	by	ADP	_	16 fire	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 fire	det
16	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lie	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 take	punct
18	only	only	ADV	_	19 take	advmod
19	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	12 lie	parataxis
20	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 take	obj
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 burn	nsubj
22	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 burn	aux
23	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 burn	advmod
24	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 take	parataxis
25	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 fur	nmod:poss
26	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 burn	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
28	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	My poor bear	the mother		tree rules
2	lie down in a quote	infinitive			by the fire	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by fire=Location
3	take in a quote	infinitive		care		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
4	not burn in a quote	present · do-support	you	your fur		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent fur=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: «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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