The Blue Fairy Book, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 25

The bear asked the children to beat the snow a little out of his fur, and they fetched a brush and scrubbed him till he was dry.

Who acts: bear, children, lamb · What happens: ask, beat, fetch, scrub, be · To what, where: children, snow, fur, brush, lamb

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, children, lamb), 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 asked	nsubj
3	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 children	det
5	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 asked	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 beat	mark
7	beat	beat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 asked	xcomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 snow	det
9	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 beat	obj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 little	det
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 beat	obl:unmarked
12	out	out	ADP	_	15 fur	case
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 fur	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 fur	nmod:poss
15	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 beat	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 fetched	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 fetched	cc
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 fetched	nsubj
19	fetched	fetch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 asked	parataxis
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 brush	det
21	brush	brush	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fetched	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 scrubbed	cc
23	scrubbed	scrub	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 fetched	conj
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 scrubbed	obj
25	till	till	SCONJ	_	28 dry	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 dry	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 dry	cop
28	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 scrubbed	advcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	the bear		the children			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent child=Recipient clause=Topic
2	beat not said to happen	to-infinitive	the bear not said here	the snow		lamb's fur	a little obl:unmarked	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location snow=Theme
3	fetch	past	children = child	a brush				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brush=Theme
4	scrub	past	children = child not said here	lamb				vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent he=Source
5	is	past	lamb				dry property	tree rules

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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