The Blue Fairy Book, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 87
Then he cried in terror: “Dear Mr. Bear, spare me!
Who acts: growl · What happens: cry, spare · To what, where: Dear Mr. Bear, terror, growl · 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 (growl), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 cried | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 cried | nsubj |
| 3 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 terror | case |
| 5 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cried | obl |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 Bear | punct |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Bear | punct |
| 8 | Dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Bear | amod |
| 9 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Bear | compound |
| 10 | Bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cried | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 spare | punct |
| 12 | spare | spare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 Bear | conj |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 spare | obj |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | growl | Dear Mr. Bear | terror | then | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in terror=Location | ||
| 2 | spare in a quote | infinitive | growl not said here | growl | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent i=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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