The Green Fairy Book, The Story of a Clever Tailor, sentence 23
The bear tried to get at him at once and to give him a warm welcome with his great paws.
Who acts: bear · What happens: try, get, give · To what, where: warm welcome, bear
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Clever Tailor. 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bear | det |
| 2 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tried | nsubj |
| 3 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 get | mark |
| 5 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 tried | xcomp |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 get | obl |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 once | case |
| 9 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 get | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 give | cc |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 give | mark |
| 12 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 get | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 give | iobj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 welcome | det |
| 15 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 welcome | amod |
| 16 | welcome | welcome | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 give | obj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 paws | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 paws | nmod:poss |
| 19 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 paws | amod |
| 20 | paws | paw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 welcome | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | the bear | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | get not said to happen | to-infinitive | the bear not said here | at bear | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | give | to-infinitive | the bear not said here | a warm welcome | bear | with bear's great paws | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient welcome=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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