The Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, sentence 16

“Keep tight hold of my fur, and then there is no danger,” said he.

Who acts: bear · What happens: keep, be, say, hold · To what, where: tight hold, danger, fur · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, East of the Sun and West of the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	“	"	PUNCT	_	2 Keep	punct
2	Keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 said	ccomp
3	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hold	amod
4	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Keep	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 fur	case
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 fur	nmod:poss
7	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hold	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 danger	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 danger	cc
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 is	advmod
11	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	12 is	expl
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 danger	cop
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 danger	det
14	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Keep	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Keep	punct
16	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Keep	punct
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 said	nsubj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	keep in a quote	infinitive		tight hold of my fur	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme
2	is a in a quote	present		no danger	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	bear		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	hold in a quote			my fur	nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient

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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