The Blue Fairy Book, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 93
But the bear, paying no attention to his words, gave the evil little creature one blow with his paw, and he never moved again.
Who acts: bear, young · What happens: pay, give, not move, word · To what, where: attention, evil little creature
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, young), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 gave | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bear | det |
| 3 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gave | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 paying | punct |
| 5 | paying | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 bear | acl |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 attention | det |
| 7 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 paying | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 words | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 words | nmod:poss |
| 10 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 paying | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 bear | punct |
| 12 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 creature | det |
| 14 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 creature | amod |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 creature | amod |
| 16 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gave | obj |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 blow | nummod |
| 18 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 creature | conj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 paw | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 paw | nmod:poss |
| 21 | paw | paw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 blow | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 moved | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 moved | cc |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 moved | nsubj |
| 25 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 26 moved | advmod |
| 26 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 gave | conj |
| 27 | again | again | ADV | _ | 26 moved | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay | gerund | the bear not said here | no attention | to young's words | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Asset | |||
| 2 | give | past | the bear | the evil little creature and one blow with young's paw | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent creature=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not move | past | young | again | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | word | young | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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