The Blue Fairy Book, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 34

When spring came, and all outside was green, the bear said one morning to Snow-white: “Now I must go away, and not return again the whole summer.”

Who acts: spring, all, bear · What happens: come, be, say, go away, not return · To what, where: white · 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 (spring, all, 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 came	advmod
2	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 said	advcl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 green	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 green	cc
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 green	nsubj
7	outside	outside	ADV	_	6 all	advmod
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 green	cop
9	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 came	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bear	det
12	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 morning	nummod
15	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	obl:unmarked
16	to	to	ADP	_	19 white	case
17	Snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 white	obl
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 Snow	punct
19	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 said	obl
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	25 go	punct
21	“	"	PUNCT	_	25 go	punct
22	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 go	advmod
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 go	nsubj
24	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 go	aux
25	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
26	away	away	ADV	_	25 go	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 return	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 return	cc
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 return	advmod
30	return	return	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	25 go	parataxis
31	again	again	ADV	_	30 return	advmod
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 summer	det
33	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 summer	amod
34	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 return	obl:unmarked
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 go	punct
36	”	"	PUNCT	_	25 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	spring				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	all			green property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	the bear	white	morning		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to white=Recipient clause=Topic
4	go away in a quote	must	the bear = bear		now	away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	not return in a quote	infinitive			again; summer		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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