The Blue Fairy Book, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 29

The bear submitted to everything with the best possible good-nature, only when they went too far he cried: “Oh! children, spare my life!

Who acts: bear, beast · What happens: submit, go, cry, spare · To what, where: bear, children, life · 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, beast), 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	17 went	nsubj
3	submitted	submit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 bear	acl
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 everything	case
5	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 submitted	obl
6	with	with	ADP	_	12 nature	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 nature	det
8	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 nature	amod
9	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 nature	amod
10	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 nature	amod
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 good	punct
12	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 submitted	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 went	punct
14	only	only	ADV	_	17 went	advmod
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 went	advmod
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 went	nsubj
17	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	too	too	ADV	_	19 far	advmod
19	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 went	advmod
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 cried	nsubj
21	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 went	parataxis
22	:	:	PUNCT	_	26 children	punct
23	“	"	PUNCT	_	26 children	punct
24	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	26 children	discourse
25	!	!	PUNCT	_	24 Oh	punct
26	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 cried	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 spare	punct
28	spare	spare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 cried	conj
29	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 life	nmod:poss
30	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 spare	obj
31	!	!	PUNCT	_	17 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	submit	participle		the bear not said here	to everything; with the best possible good nature	vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to everything=Theme
2	go	past	the bear		far property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	cry speech: express	past	beast	children		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	spare in a quote	infinitive	beast not said here	my life		vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent life=Asset

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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